From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 2 12:41:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E3914E0D for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) Ident [ewayte] by pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B5A7346F; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:37:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:37:04 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte To: Donald Wilde Cc: Bill Swingle , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy In-Reply-To: <370522AC.88DD73C2@thuntek.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think this is a great idea! SuSE Linux has an 'automated' installation that automagically finds the free slice on the disk, then configures the minimum Linux partitions for installation before proceeding with the rest of the installation. I don't know about the other Linuxen as I've only 'experimented' with SuSE before settling on FreeBSD. Eric Wayte, DBA Univ. of Central Florida ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Donald Wilde wrote: > > > The 'novice' install still asks questions and makes knowledge > assumptions a newbie will not know. Bob suggested we rename the 'novice' > install to 'experienced user' and make a new 'beginner' install that > does everything for you as far as disk partitioning and basic > distribution loading. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message