Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

[Andrea Venturoli]

Ivan Voras wrote:

Well, I'll make my statement too...


> Two reasons AFAIK:
> 
> 1. it simply doesn't even know how deal with the more modern features
> like GEOM & RAID, more advanced authentication mechanisms (nsswitch),
> and devices like sound cards (there are many more in this list...)

Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via 
PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-(
Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed this, 
I'd like to hear about it.



> 2. it's way past what's currently considered "user friendly"

Please don't get any graphics bloatware in the way. :-)




... just my two eurocents.



  bye
	av.