Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

[eculp]

Quoting Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>:

> On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
>> I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not  
>> payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at  
>> 2.0 and never really had a problem with understanding the  
>> installation program.  There is always a first time, I guess.
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201105/
>>
>> When booting I seem to get a screen that makes me remember  
>> installer screens of the 1980s.  (They were not exactly intuitive.)
>>
>> I somehow got the idea that the new installer was graphic.  Maybe  
>> something like PCBsd that is not bad at all.  I use it on all our  
>> employees computers.  Actually, after seeing this, I would love to  
>> have the old installer back.  Is their an option for that?
>>
>> Does this new ASCII installer have a "how to" with a bit of  
>> information on the flow of the installation.
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you  
> would prefer be changed? "Reminiscent of the 1980s" is not really  
> helpful, especially given that the new installer in fact looks very  
> much like sysinstall, which you seemed to like.
> -Nathan

I do not get a menu that I can understand or relate to any of the  
installations that I have done previously.  I will give it another try  
and try to explain what I don't understand.

Thanks,

ed

P.S. Is their no documentation on what to expect?
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