On 12/29/11 12:51, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 29/12/2011 16:37, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and especially >> specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people who are old >> hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally positive >> comments on the user experience. Patches would be even more >> appreciated, since real life has intervened to steal most of my >> FreeBSD time. > > There was talk in the past that any future installer should be based > around the pc-sysinstall backend - has there been any progress towards > moving bsdinstall to it? > There has not been much. My free time evaporated, and I haven't had the ability to work on this. I heard from some people at iX a while back, but I don't know what their progress is. There are a relatively small number of relatively major things that would need to be rewritten on both sides (e.g. the pc-sysinstall partition editor is x86-only and the bsdinstall one is premised around letting the kernel do pre-commit staging). There's a relatively bare wiki page at http://wiki.freebsd.org/PCBSDInstallMerge for those interested. -NathanReceived on Thu Dec 29 2011 - 21:30:10 UTC
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