On Sunday 07 September 2008 06:46:37 Ken Smith wrote: > The path I'm planning is based on these observations: > > - Many people believe you should just use sysinstall to install > the baseline system, and any packages/ports installs should > be done post-install. Its hard to say that point of view is > wrong. > > - The baseline system and the ports are fundamentally different. > People should be aware of that from the beginning. > > - At least some of the packages on the ISOs are stale within a > week of release at times; a bit longer than a week in most > cases but ...
These points are very true. > - My plans for DVD sized media (still uncertain how that will > factor into 6.4/7.1) are to provide CDROM sized ISOs that have > no packages on them at all (giving people who don't have DVD > drives something they can still install from) and one DVD > sized ISO that has packages. > > The path will be to finish what I started a while ago when I removed the > X11 options in the "installation distributions" section of sysinstall by > removing the last couple of tidbits that touch packages before you get > to the "Would you like to view the list of available packages?" section > of sysinstall (e.g. the offer to install Linux compatibility on i386). > This will provide us with a clean separation of the baseline system from > the packages. After doing a baseline install you can choose to: > > - reboot and install ports/packages when it comes back up > - switch install media to be an FTP server and get a larger > selection of packages to choose from > - use the available packages if you're installing from DVD > > No matter which approach you use, you're clearly seeing a separation > between the baseline system and the packages/ports. If you want lynx or > links or Gnome or KDE you're aware that they are packages/ports and > simply select them. If you didn't want them then you don't wind up with > them sitting on your disk. Basically I'm saying any of the things that > may have been in the "Distributions" section of sysinstall before (X11 > stuff used to be in the Distributions) are now in the packages section > along with all the other things that are packages. And with the > packages only being available on the DVD sized media we stop needing to > deal with deciding what precious little amount of stuff is worthy of > being on disc1 versus disc2/disc3/etc. and all the disc swapping that > comes with CDROM sized media. > > And for at least some arch's we *might* be able to move the livefs > support back onto disc1 if there are no packages there for CDROM sized > media - I haven't had a chance to check if that's still feasible. Very well! I hope you actually go this road and this really becomes true. It is the most advanced approach I read within this thread, covers pretty much all needs and make things really idiot proof (no offense meant). Please make it true! Thanks a lot! Regards _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
