Proposal for new `post-install userland configuration utility'

[Bruce Cran]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:26:30 -0700
Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. The utility would be presented to the end-user in the motd like is
> done today with sysinstall.

Could we run it automatically at the first boot? So, the installation
process may be:

Boot install CD. It partitions disks, installs the minimal
distribution set and does network and user configuration.

Reboot. post-install utility runs, gives user the option of which
distributions to install, followed by packages (or ports?) and does
further configuration.

I'm thinking of something like how Debian works
(http://mikeoverip.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/debian-5-lenny-step-by-step-installation-with-screenshots/),
though I'm not sure it does have a reboot step before configuration.

-- 
Bruce Cran