====== The finstall project ======

Welcome to the home page of the //finstall// project, accepted for Google's Summer of Code 2007. This project aims to create a user-friendly graphical installer for %%FreeBSD%% & %%FreeBSD%%-derived systems. The project should yield something usable for, but the intention is to keep it as a "second" installer system, alongside sysinstall at least for a while. In any case, sysinstall will be kept for architectures not supported by finstall (e.g. all except i386 and amd64).

Project's author is IvanVoras, with MurrayStokely as mentor.

Read about [[finstall/Architecture|Currently proposed architecture]] for finstall. :idea: updated :idea:

Currently forseeable milestones / deliverables are:

  * [[finstall/SurveyOfExistingInstallers|Survey of existing graphical installers]]
  * [[finstall/FirstStep|First step: Build the toolkit]] (front-end, back-end), do partitioning and simple install capability
  * Second step: Live boot CD with rudimentary install (copy) of the system to newly partitioned storage
  * Third step: More advanced configuration of the new system

Current status of this project is: Third step (Live boot CD is working!).

:idea: Look for [[https://web.archive.org/web/20070714010631/http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/|up-to-date news on this project here]].

[[finstall/ToDo|Random To-Do list]]

===== Project news =====

  * 2007-11-10 : Created a %%SourceForge%%.Net project for finstall so people without %%FreeBSD%% accounts can join: http://sourceforge.net/projects/finstall
  * 2007-11-03 : A %%LiveCD%% with BETA2 or later will not be created until the unionfs bug is fixed
  * 2007-08-20 : The installer successfully installs a basic "Amnesiac" %%FreeBSD%% system on an empty drive! See screenshots at [[finstall/Amnesiac]]
  * 2007-08-05 : I'm on vacation, will be back in a couple of weeks
  * 2007-06-16 : things are progessing nicely. I've uploaded a new screenshot at [[finstall/FirstStep]].

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