Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

From: Antoine BRUNEL <antoinebrunel_at_yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:19:53 +0200
Hi all

I suggest this "flame" to stop right now... because everybody is ok 
finally....

I agree with Rob in the fact that 'sysinstall' is a bit disturbing tool 
with its way of working: the "enter" key, the error messages if HTTP 
source is unavailable, etc....

and I confess I had to re-install my laptop 3 or 4 times before getting 
what I wanted from sysinstall. Maybe this tool should be upgraded, but I 
think it should not follow the way other installerd did.... somebody 
spokes about the Oracle installer... It was a real hell for you: how to 
install an  Oracle database onto an HP 7 inch terminal, without X and/or 
Java installed ??

I hope FreeBSD will never get way, like Windows or Linux....

How about to give a try at the actual Debian ncurse installer ??? still 
in text based environment, but very powerful ....



Kevin Oberman a écrit :
>> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:28:50 -0700
>> From: "Rob Lytle" <jan6146_at_gmail.com>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm sorry I started a kind of flame war.  All I wanted was two things:  1.
>> CD's that installed without being switched in and out dozens of times.  That
>> was fixed by the suggestion of using a DVD.  I didn't even know the DVD
>> install existed, but will do that next time.
>>     
>
> You call this a flame war? It's been pretty civil and there are no scorch
> marks on my display.
>
> I agree that the disk swapping is not a good thing, but I simply avoid
> it by never installing packages from sysinstall. I only use sysinstall
> for FreeBSD.
>
> Once I have FreeBSD installed, I update my ports tree with csup (but
> portsnap is probably a better way) and install ruby and
> portupgrade. Then I simply install the ports/packages I want using
> 'portinstall -P'. This assures that I have the latest ports and not
> something stale. I can speed the process by copying all of the packages
> from CD to my system (/usr/ports/packages/All). That way, only ports
> that have been updated since the release will be downloaded and I only
> have to change CDs a couple of times.
>
>
>   
>> 2.  Being able to use Sysinstall and not having it crash when a dependency
>> is already present.  Sometimes I like to use Sysinstall to  install gigantic
>> packages where the compile time is 26 hours, e.g KDE metapackage, and my
>> notebook uses an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz or thereabout.  That is one hell
>> of a long compile time.  For this request I will just have to wait for
>> FreeBSD 10.0.
>>     
>
> I have not seen this, but I don't sue sysinstall to install
> packages/ports. 
>   
Received on Thu Jul 03 2008 - 20:19:56 UTC

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