Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD
and got a new and strange installer.
Ron McDowell
rcm at fuzzwad.org
Sun Jul 24 23:03:08 UTC 2011
Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
>> I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
>> payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0
>> and never really had a problem with understanding the installation
>> program. There is always a first time, I guess.
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201105/
>>
>> When booting I seem to get a screen that makes me remember installer
>> screens of the 1980s. (They were not exactly intuitive.)
>>
>> I somehow got the idea that the new installer was graphic. Maybe
>> something like PCBsd that is not bad at all. I use it on all our
>> employees computers. Actually, after seeing this, I would love to
>> have the old installer back. Is their an option for that?
>>
>> Does this new ASCII installer have a "how to" with a bit of
>> information on the flow of the installation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you
> would prefer be changed? "Reminiscent of the 1980s" is not really
> helpful, especially given that the new installer in fact looks very
> much like sysinstall, which you seemed to like.
> -Nathan
>
I'll have to agree with the original poster. I have no problem with the
look and feel of the new installer, but when functionality that WAS
there is now gone, that's a problem. My two, make that three, biggest
gripes are:
1) no "back" button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting
because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well,
unacceptable.
2) no "minimal" install. Most of my installs are single- or few-task
servers where I need a base os and a couple ports.
3) I see no "post-install" uses on the new one. Sysinstall could be
used on an up-and-running system to do everything from adding a user to
changing a nameserver and more.
--
Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX
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