From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 19:50:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A7B16A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:50:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jsoza@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A303343D55 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:50:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jsoza@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 48135 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2006 19:50:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.2?) (jsoza@sbcglobal.net@66.138.122.240 with plain) by smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jan 2006 19:50:15 -0000 Message-ID: <43BAF1C1.3000608@sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:50:57 -0800 From: Josh Soza User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200601011734.52680.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200601011734.52680.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:50:17 -0000 Allen wrote: >I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before and >it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on here so >I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't think there is an easier >to follow installer help anywhere. Not arrogance, but I did do very well with >it in making it easy as crap to install: > >http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=259335 > >You don't have to sign up to read this. > >-Allen > First off this is NOT a flame. But I found your tutorial extremely hard to follow. First what does a user do if they can't boot from CD? Are there any preinstallation tasks like: inventory of hardware, ps/2 mouse or serial, size of partitions, user accounts/groups(other than root). I personally find it easier if you have a plan rather than shooting from the hip. You should have just told people to use the FreeBSD book or goto the handbook online. Another thing is that most people don't want to know or figure out how to install an operating system. They just want that puter thing to work. They don't care about disk partitions, video cards, or mouse daemons they just want it to work. You say: "I don't think there is an easier to follow installer help anywhere. Not arrogance, but I did do very well with it in making it easy as crap to install" I guess thats anitonline.com for yah. What about http://www.freebsd.org/handbook as Frank said. You should join the core team with your humbleness. Then in a later post on this thread you go onto say "Lots more but I'm not going to waste space." For that I applaude you ;) Again this isn't a flame just being brutally honest. I think Frank said it best "Good luck on your future writing, I hope that I didnt come across to strong on this post, But it is what it is." -josh p.s. Hello World! Sorry I'm a newbie...Had to get that out :)