Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:31:16 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") Message-ID: <20020123223104.SM01952@there> In-Reply-To: <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com>
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On Wednesday 23 January 2002 04:57 pm, Terry Lambert banged out on the keys: > David Schultz wrote: > > I think FreeBSD's installer could be better, too, but it works in a > > fairly straightforward manner as long as you don't have strange > > hardware. > > FreeBSD's disk "slicing" and "partitioning" really sucks. > > It's pretty damn unforgiving, in fact. > Grrr. > > -- Terry Hope you all don't mind my .02 worth, I'm just a typical (?) end-user. Been using FreeBSD less than 2 years, installed it maybe a dozen times or so, always 'dangerously dedicated'. I've never had a problem understanding the partitioning screens. I'm not a developer or programmer of any kind. I use FBSD for my home workstation, also have a machine for the firewall, and a third for a web/mysql server. I've always found it quite simple (I've had more problems with MS OS's, especially on laptops, I'm an NT :-( network admin, at work) - the first thing I did was give / 100 megs, then give /swap double whatever the ram is, and the rest goes to /usr. When all's said and done, I symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp and /var to /usr/var. I know there are many other ways to set up partitions, with multiple OS's etc, but it never was as difficult as I've read and been led to believe. I suppose there's room for improvement, since the apparent goal of many OS's is to dummy-down the install procedure so the complete computer-illiterate can handle it, no questions asked. It's been a few months since the last install (the last update was 4.4-r that I installed), and I'll be installing 4.5-r soon as the iso is downloadable. If it's of any interest, I'll be glad to post my install experiences and general thoughts, pertaining to the partition section in particular. Or, maybe I've just been 'lucky' and not had any problems? :-) Regards, -- Chip www.wiegand.org <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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