On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:49:26PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote:

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> > I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup

> > similar to something like FreeBSD with ease to it.

[...]

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> > As OpenBSD grows there simply is no reason, or logic to keeping

> > around such an archaic method of installation it now uses.

> >

> > Please keep me informed if you will, I'd love to hear the

> > thoughts, and ideas on this possible progress.

>

>	I await your diffs! Please feel free to write one that works, and

>	fits on the install media for 10 architectures. 

Oh, please. Even it it fits, it would be useless. Installation is

sequential (find disks, fdisk them (on i386-like archs), disklabel

them, choose install sets, install). Fancy curses interfaces or

even high-resolution progress bars with dancing puffy animations

won't change this.
Ciao,

	Kili
ps: this is mainly adressed to the OP, and obviously not to beck@ ;-)
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