Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD

On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote:
> 1) no "back" button/selection/mechanism on each screen.   Rebooting 
> because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well, 
> unacceptable.
> 2) no "minimal" install.  Most of my installs are single- or few-task 
> servers where I need a base os and a couple ports.
> 3) I see no "post-install" uses on the new one.  Sysinstall could be 
> used on an up-and-running system to do everything from adding a user 
> to changing a nameserver and more.

Another potential problem is that the new version of libdialog that the 
new installer uses changes the way navigation is done: on Linux and in 
the previous version on FreeBSD it's possible to press <Tab> to change 
focus to the buttons and different UI elements. That doesn't work any more.

-- 
Bruce Cran

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