Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

> I want to preface by saying that I certainly don't think a GUI
> installer should replace what FreeBSD ships with now.  Having said
> that:  It has been suggested in the past, and may as well be suggested
> again now, that a liveCD installer be created.  I know that amongst
> desktop/first-time users this would be a welcome addition.  I also
> realise that it isn't FreeBSD's main market (though it is a major
> consideration).  This sort of project could be done with somewhat less
> knowledge (I think) than sysinstall itself, and would have many
> classes of systems that simply by nature of being a liveCD it wouldn't
> have to worry about (I think of headless servers and 486s).  Just
> thought I would toss the idea out to see what people thought of it at
> this point (as I've not heard much about it for a while, and it seems
> that many of them were getting ready for 5-STABLE).

I like the idea of having a separate boot-CD for those wishing to
get a fancy GUI installer -- just so long as you can still boot
from CD1 and get a text-based version, no matter how rudimentary.