Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:08:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: james@tunasafedolphin.org (James Skinner) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer Message-ID: <200410122208.i9CM8pO22252@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <9E075442-1C9A-11D9-ADD3-000A95AF1690@tunasafedolphin.org> from "James Skinner" at Oct 12, 2004 06:03:58 PM
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> Geez, another top poster who mangles the flow of the thread!! ////jerry > Personally, I think the FreeBSD install is incredibly simple. It really > could not be easier, but if you want one that is, try DragonFlyBSD. The > install of that is very, very simple, but you may run into issues with > certain software packages. > > Jamie > > On Oct 12, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >> > >> Dear Friends : I'm a Linux user since 1,999 and I'm really interested > >> in > >> start FreeBSD. OK, it's a new system, different versions and so on. My > >> experience with computers started with Basic, after MS-DOS, Windows > >> and > >> Linux. When I tried Linux, 5 years-ago, partitions, kde, window maker > >> and many of them, were only words. My first fear, was erase my HD. I > >> did > >> it many times, but I knew how to start again or recover. I'm writing > >> these things, cause in these years using Linux, I saw a big evolution > >> , > >> specially the installer. Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware and > >> another, made a goob job and you can do it , almost without problems. > >> But, when I tried FreeBSD installer, I remembered Debian, the worst > >> installer ! Probably another distributions, like Knoppix, Kurumin , > >> Gnoppix to name a few, trying to make the life user easiest ! My first > >> experience with FreeBSD, was 5.0, with a PC Master, brazilian > >> magazine. > >> After many tries, a XFree86 error, when I typed startx, disappointed > >> me > >> again and, I forgot it... On the last month, I downloaded the 2 CDs, > >> 5.2.1, and, the same installer, errors, infinite loops... very > >> disappointing ! I tried many lists, and with some support,to resolve > >> or > >> not, the problems. Again, I format my system and, here I am, with > >> Windows (mainly for games and a problematic usb scanner) and Linux. I > >> need a more stable system. Many people talked me very good about > >> FreeBSD. For me, until now , the biggest deception ! Please, I don't > >> know the FreeBSD objectives, but if you would like that more and more > >> people can use it, CHANGE this installer. Confuse , in one word ! > >> Disappointing ! I tried standard, express, custom , all packages, > >> minimum, all kind of ways... I can't understand a looped install. > >> Almost > >> 2 hours after, an error... My video card is recognized , but when you > >> did post-install, not ! You tried many XFrre86 configs and not.... > >> When > >> something happens and finally you can start KDE or GNOME or another, > >> DHCP don't run and so on. Please change this installer and trying to > >> better hardware and network configuration ! Until this, I'll never > >> tried > >> FreeBSD again ! Sincerely, Newton - Curitiba - Brazil > > > > The nice thing about the installer is that it works. > > Too bad you will be cutting yourself off from a good system > > because you will not take the time to learn it. > > You miss so much in life. > > > > ////jerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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