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Heh.
I wish d-i would ask me all the questions up front, and it's got its roots in sysintsall's interface, so that's got similar issues.
However, I could hand it and a readme off to a friend who's never installed an OS and they'd probably walk away with a working install, and I can use it to do most install tasks.
Then you should find the new pc-sysinstall in FreeBSD 9.0 to be almost perfect. Text-mode, answer a bunch of questions, an install script is generated, then the install script is run. Every install is a scripted install, so you can manually tweak it as you see fit. And you can build any kind of TUI/GUI over top that you desire.
Wow, that sounds awesome.
I'm fighting with the results of OpenBSD "hmm. I'm not liking this. I see why people would. I don't. I'll try freebsd" sysinstall can't write to MTA-formatted drives...
_trying_ to dd them away from MTA formatting, but I may have to do something less brute-force-hack.
In any case, I now see the benefits to both install methods. I just have different priorities from OpenBSD, and I think FreeBSD embodies the philosophy of this particular project. If I was building a NAS or wanted to see how far I could get with vanilla 'real' Unix, I'd totally be on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD has a few more bells and whistles I want, and more focus on performance.
Strokes, folks, etc.
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2007-05-05
Sysinstall and Debian Installer are lovely.
Try the installer with 4.8 or -current. It has been simplified even more so than it already was.
I hate both of those installers.