From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 7 22:09:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC27E16A4CF for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:09:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao05.cox.net (lakemtao05.cox.net [68.1.17.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2702643D1F for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:09:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com) Received: from vixen42 ([68.109.49.234]) by lakemtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with SMTP id <20040308060932.OESH24099.lakemtao05.cox.net@vixen42>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 01:09:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:06:38 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: Barbish3@adelphia.net Message-Id: <20040307220638.78ff2a26@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: References: <200403072022.16736.bob89@bobj.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Donald Turnbull cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Bob Johnson Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:09:32 -0000 On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:28:03 -0500 "JJB" wrote: > Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to > be improved? > > Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what > to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, > boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS > type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall > to set bios. 5.2.1 all ready askes about ACPI... not sure about previous ones... Don't see what about the current system prevents them from rebooting and checking the bios... > That should be followed with option for standard basic install > using whole hard drive from cdrom, and no questions from that point > on. Behinds the scenes, fdisk deletes all hard drive partitions, > disklable uses auto config, skip config is taken, distro of kernel > source, no x-server, and no to all other questions, except set root > password and timezone. > > Then for the original way, for each option question, give info about > what this option enables and why one would enable it. > Example > > enable NFS server (yes / NO) NFS stands for (Network File server) > An advanced function where by this system you are installing will > have an (Local Area Network) behind it and you want this system to > share It's disk space with the other FBSD PC's on the lan. Answering > yes will start the NFS server on this system and all the FBSD pc on > the Lan must have the NFS client running to access and share the NFS > servers disk space. Will not work with MS/windows PC on the Lan. Can > be enabled later by rc.conf statements. Only answer yes if you know > for certain you are going to use this function in the immediate > future. This could get annoying... probally be easier just to have a button that could be hit to bring up help... > This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each > question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer > with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in > front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible > handbook. See above... regardless, reading it should be done... and new users should all ways be pointed towards it and/or some unix tutorials...