Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

[Antony Mawer]

Curtis Penner wrote:
> Let us take this further.
...
> When you do a system install it is like jumping back to the 80's.  The 
> front-end is like something from the DOS days.  You have to be tech 
> savvy to know what you want to do.
...
> I am looking forward to a time when installing BSD is point and click 
> with not much understanding of what is going on (unless I want to go 
> advance and do special custom work).

Ivan Voras has done some great work on addressing this with his finstall 
project:

     http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/finstall

--Antony