Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:30:58 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly Message-ID: <16462.17826.122810.761570@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <404E36C8.70206@interchange.ca> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEIJFOAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> <63602D78-712C-11D8-BA13-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <4261.203.177.105.170.1078798070.squirrel@bayok.msumain.edu.ph> <20040309032844.GA4690@moo.holy.cow> <opr4lbnwuw0cf2rk@dialup-67.74.64.58.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net> <404E36C8.70206@interchange.ca>
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Corey Mosher writes: > What would actually be quite nice is to have a fancy GUI install > in addition to the current one. Then at the beginning of the > install you can decide whether you really want to install FreeBSD > or look at the pretty lights in the fancy GUI version. Option 1 > is choose the current way, option 2 is go the GUI method. This > gives people the flexible "old fashioned" way to install while at > the same time getting people through the install who may be less > experienced buy using the GUI version. There's an additional variable here, that I haven't seen anybody mention. It is desirable to have a uniform installation process, no matter what the media. This means the hard-working folks in Release Engineering only have to wrangle one set of code. It is also desirable to have a small installation process, so deisrable I think this is a matter of official policy. (Can anyone confirm or deny this?) As of ... somewhere late in 3.x or early in 4.x, I think ... one could run the entire essential install off one 3.5 floppy. Then it was two. Now it's three, if you need some not-so-uncommon drivers. Will the sky fall if we go to four? No. But "cost" of each additional disk goes up. I don't assume everyone has a 52x CDROM, any more than I assume thay have a 3mbps cable connection. (I'm neither for or against a GUI installer. I just want to be sure we're all playing with the same deck.) Robert Huff
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