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.

To me easy of install and improvements is what's already done and added

time to time that show really how this is so easy and better. Example,

sure here is one that I notice in 4.2 and the first time, I read it as

it was different and I was use to always do the same thing, may be not

in 3 minutes flat like J.C., but may be 4:15. I guess he has faster box

then me. (;> Anyway, to the point.
In 4.2 there is the new way to specify your ntp server at the install

time. I always use to go back in and change it manually every time. Now

I don't have to, so it shave a few seconds in the install now for sure.
That's improvements. GUI and what not doesn't add anything and actually

slow down the process. Simple is better.
Now, if you were talking about adding a way to change the root

destination in the aliases at install time and allow me to specify it,

then that would improvements as well and I wouldn't have to go back in

and change it each time as well. This might get me closer to J.C.

results in install time! (;>
Great job guys! (;>
Thanks
Daniel