svn commit: r216834 - in user/nwhitehorn/bsdinstall: . distextract distfetch libexec partedit scripts

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 31 15:08:53 UTC 2010


On 12/31/10 05:18, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:19:38 +0000 (UTC)
> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org>  wrote:
>
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Fri Dec 31 02:19:38 2010
>> New Revision: 216834
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216834
>>
>> Log:
>>    Add a simple installer I wrote in a few days last week. It is
>> capable of installing a booting system on 3 of the 6 platforms
>> currently using sysinstall (amd64, i386, and powerpc). This is
>> intended to replace sysinstall, but not to take the place of more
>> full-featured installers like pc-sysinstall.
> +- Extensability
> Should be 'Extensibility'.
>
> Doesn't sysinstall have more features than pc-sysinstall?
>
Yes, I can't spell apparently. Sysinstall may have more features than 
pc-sysinstall, but I don't have a lot of experience with pc-sysinstall 
-- it seemed more complicated, at least. This installer certainly has 
fewer features than either...
-Nathan


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