[527] in NetBSD-Development
Installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yoav@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 7 09:32:15 1995
From: yoav@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 09:31:21 -0500
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
It has been expressed to me several times that one of the main difficulties
with getting NetBSD as opposed to that other thing that claims to be an OS
is installation. From the initial steps of partitioning to the final steps
of configurations, NetBSD assumes you know exactly what is going on, and
know what commands to issue. (whereas that other OS goes through this REALLY
long question and answer session).
Although I really hate the Question/Answer concept at install time, I was
thinking it might be an interesting concept to have either a form web page
or a program that lets you specify your setup, and then gives you the
approximate commands you will need to issue, in order.
(i.e, asks you for your HD size, and how you want it partitioned, asks
you about your network card, your IP address, hostname, etc.. then, using
perl or something, it fills out an INSTALL document just for you, so you don't
have to wade through 20 pages of cruft about what every file and every argument
to ifconfig is.)
Any ideas?
- yoav
