Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:04:43 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool Message-ID: <201112291504.43430.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EFCC59E.8050508@freebsd.org> References: <4EF904F2.4020109@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112291146190.34603@wonkity.com> <4EFCC59E.8050508@freebsd.org>
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On Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:55:10 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, > >> etc.) > >> rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string > >> would be > >> one improvement. > > > > There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=bsdinstall > > The problem with, say, a dropdown menu is that libdialog doesn't provide > a combination dropdown-and-text-entry window. The only alternative would > be to split partition creation into two screens (first a list of types, > and later a thing to set it up). That has the disadvantage of requiring > two screens, or a third if you want alternate types. sysinstall just popped up a new modal dialog with a menu to pick the partition type. Would something like that work in bsdinstall? -- John Baldwin
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