Any thoughts on Graphical install UI?
Joaquin Menchaca
linuxuser at finnovative.net
Thu Mar 10 00:07:54 GMT 2005
That makes a lot of sense actually. However, many of the installers
have ncurses type of installs in addition to the nice smooth graphical
install, and on top of that they even have a manual non-ncurses command
line only install. :-) We can default it to text, but have an option to
go graphical.
It would be nice to attract more people to the platform and avoid being
a niche within a niche.
-- joaquin
Dave Vollenweider wrote:
> I'm against this idea. Why? Because some of us use lower-end machines
> and having a graphical install ups the memory requirement for the
> installation. Such installers are fine for desktop machines, but for
> servers and networking machines, they just get in the way since that
> much more RAM and processing power is needed for the installation.
>
> When I tried to install Red Hat 7.3 back in 2002, it required 32 MB of
> RAM just to run the installer. A lot of this was because it was
> graphical. FreeBSD's sysinstall, on the other hand, requires only 16 MB
> (and other BSDs require even less) thanks to the fact that it's not
> graphical. I don't want to see FreeBSD go in that direction.
>
> Then there's the issue of how to fit a graphical installer on floppies.
> Some of us still have to use floppies for booting the installer (and
> then getting the actual files for FreeBSD via FTP) for various reasons,
> and having a GUI installer would make that more difficult.
>
> I do agree that FreeBSD could use an easier installation program, as
> there are several hidden pitfalls in sysinstall, but I don't think a GUI
> installer is the answer. An easier-to-understand curses-based installer
> would be a better solution.
>
> Just my two cents on this issue.
>
> - Dave V.
>
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:22:18 -0800
> Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser at finnovative.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Many Linux flavors both commericial and free have attractive UIs for
>>installation and package selection, and even to some degree
>>partitioning and formatting of hard drives.
>>
>>Is there any thought of doing this for FreeBSD? Having an attractive
>>UI, ala Fedora and/or gentoo would definately help attract more novice
>>
>>users to the FreeBSD world.
>>
>>Just a thought. Don't know if this was discussed before, as I'm a
>>newbie. :-)
>>
>> -- jm
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