Bug 86859 - sysinstall(8): Installer should ask about Linux earlier
Summary: sysinstall(8): Installer should ask about Linux earlier
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 5.4-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody)
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Reported: 2005-10-03 09:20 UTC by jhs
Modified: 2015-11-10 09:12 UTC (History)
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Description jhs 2005-10-03 09:20:15 UTC 
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 ... :-)

Fix: 

Needs coding.
How-To-Repeat: 	
Install from [CD]
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-10-03 15:15:45 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa

Over to maintainer(s).
Comment 2 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-12-29 23:14:57 UTC 
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
Comment 3 kensmith freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-12-14 22:41:52 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->kensmith

I'll take this one...
Comment 4 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-06-23 16:16:20 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: kensmith->brucec

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.
Comment 5 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-06-23 23:10:25 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->suspended

The question about installing Linux was removed in 8.0 so is unlikely to be 
fixed in older releases.
Comment 6 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-01-23 21:03:13 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: brucec->freebsd-sysinstall

Back to the pool.
Comment 7 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:07:31 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.
Comment 8 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:12:08 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.