From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 00:09:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA29881 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA29873 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16471; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Chris Hill cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 18:21:52 EDT." Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 00:08:32 -0700 Message-ID: <16467.902300912@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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