Sysinstall for just installing?

[Tobias Eriksson]

> On 27/05/2010 09:27, Tobias Eriksson wrote:
>> I've been thinking a bit about sysinstall.
>> What do we really want to do with it?
>> See, the way I use sysinstall is just to install my system, I never use
>> it
>> after an install, so to me it seems pointless having it on there after I
>> have my system up and going. Of course this is just me, maybe many out
>> there use sysinstall daily.
>>
>> What I'm getting at is that maybe sysinstall should be more tailored to
>> just installing: make it more straightforward to the user. Start with
>> setting up the keyboard and language, then maybe the NIC menu as
>> described
>> in earlier posts, and then move on to partitioning and package
>> installing.
>>
>> Is it just me that thinks like this, or do you have similar thoughts?
>>
>
> It seems to be recommended to only use it for installing, and to use
> other tools for post-configuration: for example the partitioning section
> has been copied out into usr.sbin/sade. It should definitely be more
> straightforward, without the baffling list of options and settings: for
> example I had a discussion with someone recently who rightly thought
> that users shouldn't have to go into the FixIt menu when they've already
> loaded the LiveFS CD - it should be more or less automatic.
>
> Whether this gets fixed is another matter: apparently one of the
> discussions at BSDCan was about having the PC-BSD installer be the
> primary method for installing 9.0, with FreeBSD's sysinstall being
> available if users need it.
>
> --
> Bruce Cran
>

Using the PC-BSD installer would be an option. However, if sysinstall
would still be in the system, I would like to have the changes we
discussed to be incorporated.

Looks like I could have myself a project this summer :)