Re: Notes on improving the installer

On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM Joseph Mingrone <jrm@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 19:17, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
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> > 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

Notes added thanks :-)


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