From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 10 7:30:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236DC37B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.inspire.net.nz (pobox.inspire.net.nz [203.79.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CB543E65 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdh@inspire.net.nz) Received: from inspire.net.nz (203-79-111-118.jetstart.inspire.net.nz [203.79.111.118]) by pobox.inspire.net.nz (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g7AEYta04203; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:34:55 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <3D552305.8060009@inspire.net.nz> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:28:21 +1200 From: Bruce Harding User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-nz, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "r.query" Cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: References: <0H0M00GE8SDGR8@mtaout01.icomcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org r.query wrote: > I must say I am always stuck by the ridiculous difficulty I have in installing FreeBSD, which I > guess I have done now perhaps 15 times. From the awful probing routine that takes 15 minutes > to complete and which restarts when any problem (such as a bad DNS address) is encountered > during the install to the erroneous server addresses that have been listed at the FreeBSD > website for a number of months now, what should be a 1 or 2 hour install inevitably takes a > minimum of a day. For me it typically takes more than a day because I have to quit in > frustration after a few hours to avoid pitching my computer out the window. It would be one > thing if these kinds of problems were new, but they seem to be ongoing, perhaps even > treasured, aspects of the installation routine. You want to try gentoo Linux, I've just tried installing that about 7 times in a row and always end up failing, and it doesn't have any sort of automatic installer. I never have a problem with FreeBSD, in fact today just for fun I did an ftp install because I've never done one before ( and I had the bandwidth to spare, plus a box that obviously refused to let me put Linux on it). I'd actually be wondering what your hardware is, especially considering the long probe? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message