From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 15:20:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA20110 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:20:58 -0700 Received: from servo.ipsilon.com (servo.Ipsilon.COM [204.160.241.205]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA20104 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:20:57 -0700 Received: from walnut.ipsilon.com (walnut.Ipsilon.COM [204.160.241.230]) by servo.ipsilon.com (8.6.11/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA02766 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:19:37 -0700 Message-Id: <199506202219.PAA02766@servo.ipsilon.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 06:28:25 -0700 From: Bob Hinden Organization: Ipsilon Networks, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Comments on 2.0.5 Install X-URL: http://freefall.cdrom.com/When/latest/announce.html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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