From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 3:30:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B34037B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 03:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganerc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13ayCA-0006tg-07; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:30:42 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ganerc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8IANeR33067 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:23:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: From a newbie standpoint Date: 18 Sep 2000 12:23:39 +0200 Message-ID: <8q4qfb$108t$1@ganerc.mips.inka.de> References: <007401c020ee$256364b0$78ab30cf@wildthink001> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Hicks wrote: > From a newbie standpoint FreeBSD needs a graphical installation routine Please explain to me why it needs to be graphical. In particular, why flickering 60Hz standard VGA graphics mode is better than 70Hz non-flickering standard VGA text mode. I'm apparently awfully dense, but I simply can't grasp what advantages a graphical installation offers over a curses-based one (nor what a curses-based one offers over a simple prompt system). > that walks a newbie through setting up the system. I'm under the impression that a novice installation does just this. Of course, you do realize that FreeBSD is a unix system which, once it is installed, needs a skilled administrator? When I started out with unix, I was told you needed ten years of experience to be qualified for system administration. No matter whether you believe in that estimate, systems have not become any simpler since. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message