Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 12/29/11 10:52, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS,
>> etc.)
>> rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string
>> would be
>> one improvement.
>
> There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&text=bsdinstall

The problem with, say, a dropdown menu is that libdialog doesn't provide 
a combination dropdown-and-text-entry window. The only alternative would 
be to split partition creation into two screens (first a list of types, 
and later a thing to set it up). That has the disadvantage of requiring 
two screens, or a third if you want alternate types.

The shell on v3 is a good idea, and belongs in 
/usr/src/release/rc.local, where it already handles some things like 
this (including figuring out if the console is a serial port, which 
needs to be taken into account).
-Nathan