On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:35:35 -0400, Stephan Andre' wrote:
>> I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup similar

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>> to something like FreeBSD with ease to it.

>

>Honestly, I don't see why.  How does making the installer more

>complicated is going to "help" anything.

>

>I recently sat a friend down to show how easy an install was.  This

>was on a 400MHz Dell with a 10G disk.  Putting the disk in the box

>to having a system that booted up took 11 minutes, with me

>making comments about each step.

>

>Once the machine came up, I said it was done, the system was ready

>to use.

>

>"   You mean, thats all?"

>

>Yes, I replied and left him to playing with Perl....

Damn right STeve, I did a similar demo to the techs at the outfit that

builds boxes for me.
Install on a brand new box from CD with explanation of partitioning and

turning on httpd and having another box with a browser showing the "It

worked!" page in 15 minutes.
As to the original poster's "something like FreeBSD with ease to it." I

have never been able to be confident in that piece of pretend gui-ness.

There is no clarity about it and I forever feel that it's the only

installer I've ever used where I wished for a comprehensive manual in

hard copy. Given that I joined IBM in 1962 and only quit instructing

for them a couple of years back, that covers a few installations....
There are some things (very few) that I could use in Free that aren't

in Open. Spending loads of time with that crappy installer is too high

a price.
Rod/
Me...a skeptic?  I trust you have proof.