Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0
and never really had a problem with understanding the installation
program. There is always a first time, I guess.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201105/
When booting I seem to get a screen that makes me remember installer
screens of the 1980s. (They were not exactly intuitive.)
I somehow got the idea that the new installer was graphic. Maybe
something like PCBsd that is not bad at all. I use it on all our
employees computers. Actually, after seeing this, I would love to
have the old installer back. Is their an option for that?
Does this new ASCII installer have a "how to" with a bit of
information on the flow of the installation.
Thanks,
Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you
would prefer be changed? "Reminiscent of the 1980s" is not really
helpful, especially given that the new installer in fact looks very
much like sysinstall, which you seemed to like.
-Nathan
I'll have to agree with the original poster. I have no problem with the
look and feel of the new installer, but when functionality that WAS
there is now gone, that's a problem. My two, make that three, biggest
gripes are:
1) no "back" button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting
because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well,
unacceptable.
2) no "minimal" install. Most of my installs are single- or few-task
servers where I need a base os and a couple ports.
3) I see no "post-install" uses on the new one. Sysinstall could be
used on an up-and-running system to do everything from adding a user to
changing a nameserver and more.
--
Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX
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