Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:18:01 -0500 From: "B. Kyle Adkins" <bkyleadkins@cox.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9) Message-ID: <5BFFDD9D-06BA-403D-9784-A430B9F55840@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <op.v8jjr6j234t2sn@tech304> References: <BLU160-W54C133B8003EF140C41EF7AE860@phx.gbl> <4F180C83.9090100@my.gd> <op.v8jjr6j234t2sn@tech304>
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I'm very new to FreeBSD but it seems to me that the installer is pretty much= ok. My only wish is that there might be a little more info upfront somewh= ere, preferably in the installer somewhere, about setting up for a dual boot= . I couldn't find in the handbook, (that may be my fault, don't know, but i= finally googled the info i needed, after thinking that I had inadvertently c= ommitted my Windows slice into the abyss. maybe that was a good thing, but.= ... =20 IMO though, the installer should be as lightweight and spare as possible, th= at is, if the engineering dudes are writing it. I would rather see them doi= ng their fantastic work on the OS, not on the installer anyway. Seems to m= e that a full-featured GUI installer would be a good project for the communi= ty? (ok, yeah they could have left sysinstall alone, but so what???) If yo= u had to depend on sysinstall on a daily basis, i could see having issues wi= th the change, but then again, if you are using it that often a custom insta= ll script....something... would be better anyway. from my point of view, I would rather learn how to do this by hand, because t= hen i would come out learning a lot more, and knowing more about my own sys= tem. Probably be next on my agenda. since this is my first contact with the community, I would like to thank the= development folks properly for the awesome work that they do, and to those w= ho contribute to this list. Kyle Adkins Sent from my iPad On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> wrote: > All of these complaints can go directly to /dev/null >=20 > Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you d= on't vote, you don't get to express your opinion about -RELEASE changes when= you didn't run the STABLE/RC/BETAs. You had your chance to help improve Fre= eBSD for everyone, assuming your concerns really are valid and far-reaching.= You opted out. No longer the core team's problem. >=20 > Closed: WORKSFORME > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"
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