BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall?

[Devon H. O'Dell]

Travis Poppe wrote:

 > Hello all,
 >
 > For quite some time I've been looking forward to seeing sysinstall go
 > and be replaced with a new system that's user interface agnostic. This
 > would allow developers to create a user interface of their choice
 > without having to muck around with the internals of the installer. It
 > seems that one of the major reasons this hasn't happened yet is simply
 > due to lack of development.
 >
 > Correct me of I'm wrong, but as far as I know, this is what BSD
 > Installer (the DragonFly team's installer) currently does. Other than
 > "political" disagreements, are there really any good reasons for us
 > not to look into using BSD Installer as a replacement for sysinstall?
 > I believe either FreeSBIE or LiveBSD (FreeBSD LiveCD distributions)
 > has already included the BSD Installer in a recent release.


Scott Ullrich indeed ported it to FreeSBIE.

 > I know Scott Long has posed this idea to the list in the past. BSD
 > Installer would provide the framework needed to make bells and
 > whistles such as graphical installers and so forth much more likely in
 > the future. If there are some out there who dislike the interface
 > provided by BSD Installer, I don't think it would be too difficult to
 > write a sysinstall lookalike UI for their system.
 >
 > Please visit http://www.bsdinstaller.org if any of you are interested.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > -Travis Poppe


This is something on my TODO list and is something I've been working on 
somewhat recently. I'm hoping to have this done by the end of May / 
beginning of June.

--Devon