Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:15:14 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments Message-ID: <199610081715.SAA01094@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199610081710.NAA00777@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Oct 8, 96 01:10:08 pm
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> The forced visual config on install is a horrible thing. Forced config is a > bad idea, especially when its not neccesary for most and confuses lots of > people. Secondly forcing me into the visual mode instead of command line was > just tedium. Let me disagree on this. I am fond of command line interfaces too, but you have to consider that most people (probably less expert than you) think differently. I also believe forced config is usual. The only thing I miss is probably a one-keystroke quit (Skip ?) option which does not require you to confirm things if nothing has changed (Hint hint...). > The install refused to update my /etc/ files because a piece of the > installation failed. That doesnt really make a whole lot of since, especially > as the piece that failed was compat21. There was nothing I could figure out to > do to get it to go back and write out the /etc files. Agreed. This is a problem in that it leaves the install process halfway through. It is probably more sensible to update etc files in any case. I also experienced difficulties in writing the boot manager (booteasy) on my 2GB drive. I followed the standard procedure as usual (did it twice) with no effect. Apparently, though, I can write a working bootmanager with the "Write" option in the "Partition" menu. Finally, a note on the computation of "default" partitions. It looks like computations are based on memory size rather than on disk space. I have tried to install on a 2GB disk and with 8MB ram, resulting in 28MB of swap. I'd probably make it compute a larger swap area if the FreeBSD slice is big enough. Say, 5..10% of the slice ? Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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