On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Scott Long wrote: > 2. New installer. [... sysinstall] is fairly good at the simple > task that it does [ ... ] I'll put my bugmeister-hat on and simply say that query-pr suggests otherwise. I have not spent sufficient time examining each of the PRs to figure out what the breakdown is between 'bugs within sysinstall'/ 'unable to boot FreeBSD on hardware'/'user error' but IMHO the first group contains more than a handful of PRs. (the total # is 142.) This is not to say we should abandon the KISS principle and try to come up with some all-singing/all-dancing "thing"; in fact, the opposite. I'd rather we spent time on making something small and solid which would contain enough of its own documentation to prevent people from tearing their hair out while trying to use it. Unlike much of the rest of the system where we assume users have at least some familiarity with FreeBSD (and a working browser), we have to engineer an installer that assumes that both of those are false. Unfortunately for me I probably will never be able to work on this unless someone wants to pay me to work on FreeBSD full-time; too many other things are ahead of it in my personal FreeBSD queue ... mclReceived on Wed Dec 01 2004 - 23:11:31 UTC
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