On 25/07/2011 06:01, Freddie Cash wrote:
Thank goodness. The worst thing about sysinstall was that it tried to be a Swiss Army knife doing everything, yet not doing any one thing well. It made a royal mess of rc.conf if you tried to use it to configure a system. Usually the first time someone mentions they use it for post-install configuration, the recommendation is to stop doing that! An os installer should do just that: install the os and nothing else.
I tend to disagree with this. For people unfamiliar with FreeBSD using it as a systems administration tool can be really useful, at least until they understand where all the various configuration files are and how they work. Having recently switched to opensuse from Ubuntu I know I find the YaST tool incredibly useful, and probably wouldn't have continued using SuSE if it hadn't been there. Its installer mode is one of the better installers I've come across, and lets you fine-tune the configuration.
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