Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:49:26PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
> > I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup
> > similar to something like FreeBSD with ease to it.
[...]
> > As OpenBSD grows there simply is no reason, or logic to keeping
> > around such an archaic method of installation it now uses.
> > 
> > Please keep me informed if you will, I'd love to hear the
> > thoughts, and ideas on this possible progress.
> 
>	I await your diffs! Please feel free to write one that works, and
>	fits on the install media for 10 architectures. 

Oh, please. Even it it fits, it would be useless. Installation is
sequential (find disks, fdisk them (on i386-like archs), disklabel
them, choose install sets, install). Fancy curses interfaces or
even high-resolution progress bars with dancing puffy animations
won't change this.

Ciao,
	Kili

ps: this is mainly adressed to the OP, and obviously not to beck@ ;-)

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