Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

On Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:55:10 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>
> >> A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS,
> >> etc.)
> >> rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string
> >> would be
> >> one improvement.
> >
> > There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=bsdinstall
> 
> The problem with, say, a dropdown menu is that libdialog doesn't provide 
> a combination dropdown-and-text-entry window. The only alternative would 
> be to split partition creation into two screens (first a list of types, 
> and later a thing to set it up). That has the disadvantage of requiring 
> two screens, or a third if you want alternate types.

sysinstall just popped up a new modal dialog with a menu to pick the partition 
type.  Would something like that work in bsdinstall?

-- 
John Baldwin