Re: Notes on improving the installer

On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 19:17, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM Joseph Mingrone <jrm@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Yesterday at the Kitchener-Waterloo hackathon, we spent a few hours
>> reviewing the FreeBSD installer and identifying areas for improvement.
>> We've documented our observations and suggestions on the wiki:
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ImproveInstaller
>> Feedback and contributions are welcome.
>> Joe

> Hey Joe! Its totally unfriendly to (side)install FreeBSD on a drive
> with existing operating systems everything needs to be done by hand in
> that case while this is probably most common scenario for new users
> :-)

> I reported this on bugzilla as feature request some time ago.. should
> I add note on wiki too? :-)

> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241296

> Thanks :-)
> Tomek

Hi Tomek,

Yes, if you're up for adding your and David's thoughts to the wiki page
that would be helpful.

There is a GSoC project that /could/ solve some of these problems if
that work could be integrated into the installer.

Joe