[PREVIEW] bsdconfig(8)

Ron McDowell rcm at fuzzwad.org
Tue Mar 6 18:30:47 UTC 2012


Not sure this will get to -hackers, I'm not on their list.  More below...

On 3/6/12 12:10 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
>> 3) when bsdconfig starts the note regarding the packages shouldn't state
>>     "Pascal". most people probably don't know what pascal is. ;) how about
>>     VirtualBox or chromium? these packages are probably used by a lot more
>>     users.
> ^_^ Agreed. Ron, can we change this?
>
> Thoughts: I'm thinking that we should name some high-visibility software here.
> Say... Firefox :-D

That text was snagged verbatim from sysinstall.  I'm open to any changes 
there.

>> 4) do we really need fdisk and disklabel? hasn't freebsd moved onto gpart
>>     and glabel?
>>
> I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
>
> I've been thinking that we should combine the Fdisk and DiskLabel menus into a
> single menu that calls sade(8).
>
> Thoughts?

I'd agree with that for the 10.0 version.  For 9.x I'd rather see them 
separate as that's the way they are in sysinstall.  Make sense?

-- 
Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX



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