Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:35:19 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: New installation script Message-ID: <CAN6yY1td=69XHSir1kr62yhhzXKk3YrRcVQrZgqnF48uVnCvVw@mail.gmail.com>
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I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am generally happy with it. The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was so used to the old behavior, but it really is more intuitive and I would not want to see the old behavior restored. I'll get used to it soon. I do have a couple of issues with the new installation tool, though. 1. After completing the partition design I am presented with the option to "Save" the partitions. It is not at all cleared that "Save" actually creates the partitions and newfses the file systems. I suggest changing "Save" to "Commit" or Execute". These are far clearer and more frightening. "Save" sounds too safe, not like you are about to update basic disk structure and may be about to make any data on the disk unusable. 2. I was installing 9 into an existing set of partitions. (I understand that this is NOT typical.) First the system asks me about adding a partition. Oops! I selected the only option that was not clearly wrong, "Cancel". I was not at all sure that it was what I wanted, but it was. I have no idea how to improve this and it's probably not worth spending much time think about it. But the next step was confusing. I selected each of the existing partitions that I was going to use and selected modify to enter the name of the partition (/, /var, /usr, /tmp). I then quit and selected the not scarey "Save". I proceeded, but thought the "Save" was rather fast. Then the install failed because the partitions were already populated. I ended up re-booting and then going through each partition and deleting it and then selecting the slice and creating it again. While not a big deal, it seemed like the Modify to name the partitions should have triggered the newfs that was not done. I think my first point is pretty important. The second is far less so. The install went pretty well and I am generally very pleased with the new installer. It's certainly an improvement over the old one! Thanks to the folks who worked on it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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