Any thoughts on Graphical install UI?

[W. D.]

At 22:22 2/19/2005, Joaquin Menchaca, wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Many Linux flavors both commericial and free have attractive UIs for 
>installation and package selection, and even to some degree partitioning 
>and formatting of hard drives.
>
>Is there any thought of doing this for FreeBSD?  Having an attractive 
>UI, ala Fedora and/or gentoo would definately help attract more novice 
>users to the FreeBSD world.
>
>Just a thought.  Don't know if this was discussed before, as I'm a 
>newbie. :-)
>
>  -- jm

The installer for FreeBSD is very configurable.  Because of 
this, it can be daunting for a new user.  I've written up a 
procedure, that when taken step-by-step will get you a running
system in minimal time:
http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/

Just about everyone complains about sysinstall, but it does
work, so there hasn't been much movement there.



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