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

On 25/07/2011 02:08, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 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.

The Debian 6.0.2.1 installer appears to use the old navigation method, 
and SuSE 11.4 seems to too.

-- 
Bruce Cran