Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 12/29/11 12:51, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 29/12/2011 16:37, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and especially
>> specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people who are old
>> hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally positive
>> comments on the user experience. Patches would be even more
>> appreciated, since real life has intervened to steal most of my
>> FreeBSD time.
>
> There was talk in the past that any future installer should be based
> around the pc-sysinstall backend - has there been any progress towards
> moving bsdinstall to it?
>

There has not been much. My free time evaporated, and I haven't had the 
ability to work on this. I heard from some people at iX a while back, 
but I don't know what their progress is. There are a relatively small 
number of relatively major things that would need to be rewritten on 
both sides (e.g. the pc-sysinstall partition editor is x86-only and the 
bsdinstall one is premised around letting the kernel do pre-commit 
staging). There's a relatively bare wiki page at 
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PCBSDInstallMerge for those interested.
-Nathan