Robert Watson wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Mike Makonnen wrote:
The installer can already install a basic FreeBSD system (including
the ports collection) from CD, UFS, or DOS partition. I'm currently
working on getting FTP/HTTP/NFS installation to work. Next on my list
after that is setting Date and Time Zone. At that stage the installer
will be more or less feature-complete, and I can start code cleanup,
getting it to work on additional architectures, etc. I had initially
intended to include package installation as one of the criteria for
feature-completeness, but after reading through this thread I've
decided not to use sysinstall's package installation code and instead
write one from scratch once I'm happy with the rest of the installer.
Sounds pretty much in line with what I was looking for. However, I
think I would like to see it be a bit more complete than sysinstall in
the area of geom partition labeling (concat/strip/raid/encryption),
and perhaps also ZFS support. I realize that adds complexity a fair
amount, but one of the biggest areas of feature lack in sysinstall
today is that you are basically stuck with the original BSD partition
structure and UFS, whereas we expect increasing numbers of users to
deploy ZFS. We don't have boot support currently, but being able to
set up /data as a ZFS file system would be great. Today, people have
to do an initial install on, say, a small boot partition and then
relabel/deal with the rest of the disk, boot a live CD, or worse,
discover they have to repartition, which really fails to expose some
of the excellent ease-of-use, auto-configuration, etc, features that
we otherwise have in this area.
I agree absolutely. I should have said ".... more or less
feature-complete for a 1.0 release".
Cheers.
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