Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

On 07/24/11 20:03, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote:
>> 1) no "back" button/selection/mechanism on each screen.   Rebooting 
>> because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well, 
>> unacceptable.
>> 2) no "minimal" install.  Most of my installs are single- or few-task 
>> servers where I need a base os and a couple ports.
>> 3) I see no "post-install" uses on the new one.  Sysinstall could be 
>> used on an up-and-running system to do everything from adding a user 
>> to changing a nameserver and more.
>
> Another potential problem is that the new version of libdialog that 
> the new installer uses changes the way navigation is done: on Linux 
> and in the previous version on FreeBSD it's possible to press <Tab> to 
> change focus to the buttons and different UI elements. That doesn't 
> work any more.
>

It's a change from before, but a normalization with respect to most 
Linux distributions, since we are now using the same dialog as, e.g., 
Debian and Ubuntu.
-Nathan