On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:35:35 -0400, Stephan Andre' wrote: >> I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup similar >> to something like FreeBSD with ease to it. > >Honestly, I don't see why. How does making the installer more >complicated is going to "help" anything. > >I recently sat a friend down to show how easy an install was. This >was on a 400MHz Dell with a 10G disk. Putting the disk in the box >to having a system that booted up took 11 minutes, with me >making comments about each step. > >Once the machine came up, I said it was done, the system was ready >to use. > >"<blink> <blink> You mean, thats all?" > >Yes, I replied and left him to playing with Perl....
Damn right STeve, I did a similar demo to the techs at the outfit that builds boxes for me. Install on a brand new box from CD with explanation of partitioning and turning on httpd and having another box with a browser showing the "It worked!" page in 15 minutes. As to the original poster's "something like FreeBSD with ease to it." I have never been able to be confident in that piece of pretend gui-ness. There is no clarity about it and I forever feel that it's the only installer I've ever used where I wished for a comprehensive manual in hard copy. Given that I joined IBM in 1962 and only quit instructing for them a couple of years back, that covers a few installations.... There are some things (very few) that I could use in Free that aren't in Open. Spending loads of time with that crappy installer is too high a price. Rod/ Me...a skeptic? I trust you have proof.
