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
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