On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:35:35 -0400, Stephan Andre' wrote:

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>> I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup similar
>> to something like FreeBSD with ease to it.
>
>Honestly, I don't see why.  How does making the installer more
>complicated is going to "help" anything.
>
>I recently sat a friend down to show how easy an install was.  This
>was on a 400MHz Dell with a 10G disk.  Putting the disk in the box
>to having a system that booted up took 11 minutes, with me 
>making comments about each step.  
>
>Once the machine came up, I said it was done, the system was ready
>to use.
>
>"<blink> <blink>  You mean, thats all?"
>
>Yes, I replied and left him to playing with Perl....

Damn right STeve, I did a similar demo to the techs at the outfit that
builds boxes for me.

Install on a brand new box from CD with explanation of partitioning and
turning on httpd and having another box with a browser showing the "It
worked!" page in 15 minutes.

As to the original poster's "something like FreeBSD with ease to it." I
have never been able to be confident in that piece of pretend gui-ness.
There is no clarity about it and I forever feel that it's the only
installer I've ever used where I wished for a comprehensive manual in
hard copy. Given that I joined IBM in 1962 and only quit instructing
for them a couple of years back, that covers a few installations....

There are some things (very few) that I could use in Free that aren't
in Open. Spending loads of time with that crappy installer is too high
a price.
 
Rod/

Me...a skeptic?  I trust you have proof.