Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 06:28:25 -0700 From: Bob Hinden <hinden@ipsilon.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Comments on 2.0.5 Install Message-ID: <199506202219.PAA02766@servo.ipsilon.com>
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I completed my upgrade to 2.0.5. I have a few comments, suggestions, and observations. I did the install via FTP. Overall I liked it a lot. I used to work at Sun and I think the FreeBSD install is better and easier than what Sun does with Solaris. Nice work! I had to do the install twice because the first time I selected the install option which said sources (but no X) because I thought I would get OS source, X binaries but no X sources. What I got was no X at all. I think it would be helpful if this menu choice was clearer. I found the disk partition and label parts of the install a bit skimpy on online documentation. I would have been helped more if gave me more guidance on what to create. Perhaps a options where it will set up all three unix partitions (root, swap, /usr) with default sizes for root and swap would make it easier. I was also supprised to find that when I did the second install that it did not find the labels I had created for the first install. It made me do them over again. The package part of the install only tried to find a CDROM. There did not appear to be a way to also get it to use FTP. This would be a nice addition. Overall it was very nice and I like FreeBSD a lot! Hope this is helpful. Bob
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