Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 00:08:32 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Chris Hill <jchill@dgsys.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Message-ID: <16467.902300912@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 18:21:52 EDT." <v03007800b1ed30dc8847@[204.97.64.155]>
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> 1. The instructions-docs-readmes pertaining to the installation need to be > more explicit on the fact that the boot floppy's little kernel has enough > smarts to handle an ftp installation all by itself. As they are, the docs They do. > 2. Let's say some poor schmuck is trying to do an installation from > floppies. If one of the diskettes is bad, why does the installer claim to > have encountered a "Write failure on transfer!" when in fact it was a READ > error due to the bad floppy? That's an architectural limitation which is hard to get around - by the time you're in that particular section of code, you're really not sure *what* is directly responsible for the failure since you're just talking to tar down a pipe and the two failure modes are hard to distinguish. Not really worth mucking with for an installer which is (finally!) in the process of going away. > 3. The schmuck in question can always flip over to the other virtual console > and look at the debugging info, but only if he knows to press alt-Fx. The Which it tells you to do - you're not READING closely enough. :) The message dialogs say explicitly to go look over there (and not just in the FTP installation on-screen help). > 4. Since FreeBSD runs on PC hardware, I would have thought the default > configuration would be set up to deal with all the "normal" devices one > might expect to find on a PC. Although I don't anticipate using the floppy > drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have > had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive. Huh? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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