BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Brian Candler wrote:
> Message-id: <20050504085341.GB780 at uk.tiscali.com>

> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:32:42PM -0600, Travis Poppe wrote:
> > For quite some time I've been looking forward to seeing sysinstall go
> > and be replaced with a new system that's user interface agnostic. This
> > would allow developers to create a user interface of their choice
> > without having to muck around with the internals of the installer. It
> > seems that one of the major reasons this hasn't happened yet is simply
> > due to lack of development.
> > 
> > Correct me of I'm wrong, but as far as I know, this is what BSD
> > Installer (the DragonFly team's installer) currently does.
> 
> I'm very interested in seeing improvements to the installation and
> management utilities, but I think many of the current problems are
  ..........

[ Some good point Brian (but I'll omit a `me too' reiteration of bits). ]

If anyone's going to be comparing installers, & recoding things,
they may want to also look at the http://www.pcbsd.org installer
for ideas.  A friend who downloaded their .iso tried it & thought
the the installer would be a lot easier / more atractive for
recruiting newbies.  It's under a GNU licence though.

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