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From: jhs@berklix.org
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Subject: Installer should ask about Linux earlier
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>Number:         86859
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): Installer should ask about Linux earlier
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          suspended
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 03 08:20:15 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jan 23 21:03:34 UTC 2011
>Originator:     jhs@berklix.com
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
berklix.com
>Environment:


	
>Description:
Years back, a nice job was done of moving all the install config
questions to occur at once, so one could answer them all, then walk
off & leave the new box installing. (Unliker other installers, where
one has to sit in front, nursing the install through).  That is now
spoilt a little bit, by having the install then later ask, ~Install
Linux emulator?~ & then waiting some more at screen for it to happen.
It's just one more toggle question that could be moved up to be
asked at beginning, & then run while one is Not sitting in front
waiting for it to complete.

(Yes I know there's ports too, but this is a bit different. I also know
one can run the installer later multi user etc, but even so ... :-)

	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
Install from [CD]

>Fix:

	


Needs coding.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Oct 3 14:15:45 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86859 

From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
To: jhs@berklix.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/86859: Installer should ask about Linux earlier
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:14:57 +0000

 On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:13:25AM +0200, jhs@berklix.org wrote:
 > 	
 > >Description:
 > Years back, a nice job was done of moving all the install config
 > questions to occur at once, so one could answer them all, then walk
 > off & leave the new box installing. (Unliker other installers, where
 > one has to sit in front, nursing the install through).  That is now
 > spoilt a little bit, by having the install then later ask, ~Install
 > Linux emulator?~ & then waiting some more at screen for it to happen.
 > It's just one more toggle question that could be moved up to be
 > asked at beginning, & then run while one is Not sitting in front
 > waiting for it to complete.
 
 Hi Julian,
 
 Looking at the code, specifically install.c, the Linux question does
 indeed get asked at the same time as all the other questions (is this an
 NFS client, do you want ACPI disabled indefinitely, etc).  This doesn't
 seem to have been changed any time recently either.
 
 Is this a problem with 6.x or a 7.0 snap?
 
 Ceri
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->kensmith 
Responsible-Changed-By: kensmith 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Dec 14 22:41:52 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take this one... 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86859 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: kensmith->brucec  
Responsible-Changed-By: brucec 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jun 23 15:16:20 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Grab. The question does get asked at the same time as other post-install 
questions, but the problem is that installing Linux support takes a long time 
and so should be asked before the base system is extracted. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86859 
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended  
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 23 22:10:25 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
The question about installing Linux was removed in 8.0 so is unlikely to be 
fixed in older releases. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86859 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: brucec->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: brucec 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jan 23 21:03:13 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Back to the pool. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86859 
>Unformatted:
