FreeBSD installer (was: Foundation update - June 2025)

On 07/07/2025 17:26, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
> <paaguti@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I see that there's work going on the installer. …
> … the wiki todo list :-)
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ImproveInstaller


<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mhqykr/freebsd_installers_differences_between_the_shell/> 
was partly an attempt to understand the differences between the shell 
and the live system. To get a side-by-side view of outputs from env, and 
so on.

I reckon, the most surprising thing (from the perspective of a newcomer 
to the installer) is, the live system is so constrained that desirable 
commands such as pkg can not be used to try software that does not 
require a GUI.

 From my more experienced perspective: the inability to install lynx is 
sometimes a show-stopper. A network connection without Internet service 
is quite useless, and – in the environment where I most often need a 
live system – I can not gain Internet service without first using a web 
browser to authenticate. (Did a developer recently write about walled 
garden-like scenarios? I lost track of where I read it, sorry.)

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The shell and live system aside: recent improvements to the installer 
are _very_ noticeable. Thanks to everyone involved.