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 Tag: installer
Ivan Voras - "finstall" - the new FreeBSD installer
Source: BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference
 Added: 26 May 2008
 Tags: bsdcan, bsdcan2008, slides, freebsd, installer, ivan voras
 PDF file (1.1 Mb, 39 pages)
 
 "finstall" - the new FreeBSD installerA graphical installer for FreeBSD
		The "finstall" project, sponsored by Google as a
		Summer of Code 2007 project, is an attempt to create
		a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD,
		with enough strong technical features to appeal to
		the more professional users. A long term goal for
		it is to be a replacement for sysinstall, and as
		such should support almost all of the features
		present in sysinstall, as well as add support for
		new FreeBSD features such as GEOM, ZFS, etc. This
		talk will describe the architecture of "finstall"
		and focus on its lesser known features such as
		remote installation.
		 
		"finstall" is funded by Google SoC as a possible
		long-term replacement for sysinstall, as a "LiveCD"
		with the whole FreeBSD base system on the CD, with
		X11 and XFCE4 GUI. In the talk I intend to describe
		what I did so far, and what are the future plans
		for it. This includes the installer GUI, the backend
		(which has the potential to become a generic FreeBSD
		configuration backend) and the assorted tools
		developed for finstall ("LiveCD" creation scripts).
		More information on finstall can be found here:
		http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall.
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