On Sep 13, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Bob Beck wrote:
I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup
similar to something like FreeBSD with ease to it.
I don't think it's worth putting my efforts into. The current
installer is about the easiest thing I have to deal with from AIX, 4
linux distributions, and FreeBSD.
I don't think anyone else is clamoring for it, either. I have to go
back in the misc@ archives over 4 years to find any pointed
complaints of the installer. Sysinstall is a bloated mess that
provides no value. You're basically taking some of the afterboot(8)
tasks and shoving them where they don't need to be.
As OpenBSD grows there simply is no reason, or logic to keeping
around such an archaic method of installation it now uses.
Please keep me informed if you will, I'd love to hear the
thoughts, and ideas on this possible progress.
I await your diffs! Please feel free to write one that works, and
fits on the install media for 10 architectures.
I don't. The OpenBSD installer is a very underrated part of the
overall user experience. What other OS can you install in 3 minutes
flat? Keep it simple, stupid.
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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