On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Rob Lytle wrote:
My depressing analysis- YMMV. I've used FreeBSD since 1998.
The good news is that there are no less than three in-progress sysinstall replacements. At least two have been posted about recently with test ISOs for 7.0. And there are at least a couple of other variations floating around, such as the PC-BSD installer. So I think we can expect to see non-trivial progress here in the next year. My primary concern about some of these replacement installer projects is that they've placed a strong focus on making them graphical -- I actually couldn't care less about GUIs (and I think they actually hurt my configurations, since I use serial consoles a lot), but what I do want is a very tight and efficient install process, which I feel sysinstall does badly on (not just for the reasons you specify).
Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
1..Installing the packages off of the menu on the 3 CDROMs is an incredibly tedious miserable process. I had to switch out the CD's around 40 times. If you don't believe me, just mark a whole bunch of random packages after obtaining the 7.0 release CD's, ad then install. Its frustrating and almost like Windows, except its a bit faster as replacing CD's is faster than reboots. 2. When installing any given package, if a dependency is already there , the package aborts and then goes though some loop where you have to press OK half a dozen times. Thats insane. I think the CD switching problem would be to install all the packages at once from CD1, then CD2, then CD3. As for the second case, I don't know enough about the infrastructure to suggest any thing except to perhaps comment that code in its entirety or put in switch to bypass already installed dependencies. I wish I knew more about your infrastructure to fix this myself. Is it written in Python? Thats the only language I'm not so rusty at. I've programmed in 5 languages, but that was long ago. I'm old. But someone who knows the system could probably fix it fast. I think this is such an inherent infrastructure problem that has existed so long that a bug report would be futile. Food for thought. Thanks, Rob -- ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/user/whiteflluffyclouds (Ham radio videos) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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