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

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:24:00 -0600
On 12/29/11 14:04, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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?
>

It would. I was hoping to avoid extra dialogs and keystrokes, but it's 
easy to do.
-Nathan
Received on Sat Dec 31 2011 - 01:24:03 UTC

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