Newbie Experience

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Sep 11 08:47:10 PDT 2006


On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net>:
> 
> > Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most
> > important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having
> > both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice
> > and modern. And I'd be definitely happy to help where I can. PC-BSD has one,
> > right? 
> 
> The community _is_ aware of the deficiency.  It just hasn't completed an
> acceptable replacement yet.  Probably the best known attempt was libh:

I'm very happy with the installer as it is. I usually use floppies and then install via ftp, so I'd prefer to keep the installer as small as possible. Maybe even ncurses is not necessary.

anton


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