Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:51:03 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: jrs <jrs@CERF.NET> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments on first time install and docs. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950911154118.7300A-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950911093358.2253A-100000@nic.cerf.net>
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On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, jrs wrote: > 2. If you don't know to look for and read all the FAQ's (particularly > the DISKSPACE.FAQ), you can needlessly have to reinstall your system > because you selected 'bad' values. As an example: when installing, > the install program allows you to 'slice' up your disk. However, > there are no recommended sizes for the various partitions. In the > DISKSPACE.FAQ it says "root 18 - 50 MB" & "swap 2 * RAM". Agreed. If I am not mistaken, the old 1.1.5 installation procedure did this. > 3. In the XFree86 there should be examples of basic default configurations > for both COM1 & COM2 mice, i.e. what are the /dev entries for the > comm ports etc. I gather that XFree86 is more or less just "dropped" in from the XFree86 distribution. Rolling our own custom distribution would be a fair amount of work, but would have some good payoff. > What/who is UID 2035? Beats me! > 7. When I did the install (several times for practice and experimenting) > I noticed that if I did a 'custom' install and then selected everything, > that the XFree86 system was not installed correctly. It would miss > installing everything except the binaries. (maybe I screwed up, but I > did it consistantly 3 times in a row then!) I've noticed some other inconsistencies as well, like the inability to install kernel sources only via the custom option. It should be possible to duplicate all the "canned" options via custom options, but in reality it isn't. > 8. The (I assume) curses lib that was used to create the install program > and pkg_manage is a rather nice user interface for character based > programs. If it is documented, I did not find it. But I think that > On this same thought, it could be used to implement something similar > to the 'sysadmsh' found on SCO systems. This again would make it much I think a number of people hav this on in the pipeline, though I don't know if anyone has actually started designing... > 9. I realise that the user can go out and for $120 buy the O'Reilly > documentation set of books for 4.4BSD-Lite. But what about the guy > that is on a limited budget? Couldn't some HOW-TO's be written for > some of the more general things as in Linux? Say for example, how > to setup the system for network connectivity, slip and/or ppp, etc. I got a chance to look at the 4.4 books the other day, and to be honest, I'm glad I didn't spend the money. A sizable chunk of that documentation is available online. For example, 2 of the volumes are just man pages. Much of the rest is available in /usr/src/share/doc. I'm working on that area for the 2.1 release. Thanks for your comments! -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============home | help
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