Comments on: finstall alpha version

By: ivoras

ivoras — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:54:37 +0000

For all the users still reading this post: please see newer posts on this subject – there are newer version(s) of finstall available. I will not update this comment or answer requests related to it any more.

To William O. Yates: The development has moved to SourceForge some time ago (http://www.sf.net/projects/finstall) but the ISO images will not be hosted there. I’m hosting them myself until a production version of the whole thing is finished – then I hope that the official FreeBSD mirrors will start carrying it. For custom “flavours” of finstall, see the makeimage.py script in the sources of finstall (on SourceForge) – it was created to do just that.

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By: Software Development Guide

Software Development Guide — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:23:27 +0000

Software Development Guide…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

By: ivoras

ivoras — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:57:13 +0000

RE: Wrong geometry error: No tester has complained so far

By: Bhupendra Atre

Bhupendra Atre — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:55:21 +0000

well i hope it does not show the “wrong geometry” error. It had scared the shit out of me when i first tried to install freeBSD with my winxp.

By: xiaoqi

xiaoqi — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:09:58 +0000

so nice !

By: Darwin

Darwin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:44:53 +0000

FYI:
I ran this on Fedora 8 (updated pass Test2 a bit)
using Virtual-Box 1.5.
(Pent IV t.4 ht 1GB 400 dual channel mem, Intel865GBF)

Also on Pioneer StageCoach (fully updated – a Ubuntu 7.04 engine.
Pent III 800 1GB 133 mem.)

The live cd booted fine and the installer started ok.
I used the defaults that were checked and a 3GB vd space.
VB used a lot of cpu, but the progress was reasonable on both.
Going from =378 MB of memory on the VM made a big difference.

At the Host Name and Root Password screen – clicking or keying next resulted in full CPU usage by VB for …
I stopped it on the Pent IiI after 1 hour.
I tried to boot the results on the Pent IV and it had many not found program items and hung.

Is this the expected result for the installer to not complete? i.e. The test was to install but the installed system was a dud?

I am very glade someone has created this. It took me 2 years to get BSD 6, 6.1, 6.2 installed and recompiled using the text installer.

So now I will try the Aug Snapshot in VB. I might get lucky.

thanks for coding this installer, more polish welcomed,
Darwin

By: Pain and Glory from the Trenches of the IT World

Pain and Glory from the Trenches of the IT World — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:06:17 +0000

Please keep sysinstall!...

I read today about the finstall effort for FreeBSD. It is a GUI installer for FreeBSD. Although it sounds like a helpful tool for some users, I don’t think I’d want it to replace the existing sysinstall installation system.

One of the ma…

By: lulf

lulf — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:33:46 +0000

This is great work Ivan!