From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 21 06:19:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA19828 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 06:19:28 -0700 Received: from sass165.sandia.gov (sass165.sandia.gov [132.175.109.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA19822 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 06:19:26 -0700 Received: from sargon.mdl.sandia.gov (sargon.mdl.sandia.gov [134.253.20.128]) by sass165.sandia.gov (8.6.11/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA13730 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 07:26:07 -0600 Received: (aflundi@localhost) by sargon.mdl.sandia.gov (8.6.10) id HAA18622 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 07:19:20 -0600 Message-Id: <199506211319.HAA18622@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 07:19:19 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" "Re: Comments on 2.0.5 Install" (Jun 20, 11:44pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Comments on the 2.0.5 Installation Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Two more things I think would be neat for the next sysinstall (but perhaps not feasible): 1) For tape installations, allow multiple files on one tape so that device /dev/nr?t? would be used. The files (distributions) would have to be ordered, but if documented, I don't think that would be a difficult hurdle. This could allow an installation on a somewhat smaller disk. 2) Do the file transfer (via tape read, ftp, nfs, or whatever) in parallel with the install. I.e., read floppies/root.flp read bin/* install root.flp read manpages/* install bin read compat1x/* install manpages ... "User-friendliness" is a hard term to define, but I would guess that an installation that took 30 minutes might be called more user-friendly than one that took 60 minutes. Similarly, one that took fewer resources (in this case disk space) might also be called more user-friendly. Many thanks to those working on FreeBSD. The install just keeps getting better (it goes very quickly once you get the hang of it) and the OS is really a pleasure to use! --alan