Modern FreeBSD Installer?

[Manolis Kiagias]

Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:00:24 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy at otenet.gr> wrote:
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>> The text installer should always be the default, IMHO. A GUI  installer
>> should be selectable i.e. from the boot options.
>> I hope Ivan Voras finds the time to continue with the finstall project,
>> it looked very promising:
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>> http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2009-02-19.what-happened-to-finstall.html
>>     
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> As an option, yes; as a replacement... uhm, no, better not...
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>> The problem here is that sysinstall *does* allow you to go back and redo
>> some steps, but then fails miserably and mysteriously
>> [...]
>> ...it does allow you to go back in a sort of way - but then fails many
>> times to continue normally.
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> I don't deny that fact that this observation is possible, but I
> never found such a behaviour. Could you provide an example how
> to create a situation where sysinstall fails as you mentioned it?
> (It's a completely honest question.)
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An example: pressing cancel on any dialog will almost certainly get you
somewhere where you cannot continue or restart successfully. The label
editor will not allow me to create any partitions other than the
standard ones, as it keeps asking for mount points. You can select "Exit
this menu (returning to previous one)" (I think cancel too) in the
distributions list without making any selection at all, and it still
goes on and install (what?).  Pressing CTRL+C at most parts of
sysinstall will give you a menu to abort or restart the installation
program. On restart, most of the times it will fail creating (slices or
partitions) or formating filesystems. These are just a few problems I
remember now. Granted, if you do always follow the same ritual (as I do
mostly) it works and I can simply ignore it, but others hate it...