From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 20:45:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA16173 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:45:48 -0700 Received: from trepan.io.org (taob@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA16168 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:45:43 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by trepan.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA03953; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:45:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:45:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: 2.1.0-950928-SNAP now available for testing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I'm going through the 2.1.0-950928-SNAP installation process right now on a 486DX2/66 beside me. So far, I'm even more impressed that I was with the (then) revamped 2.0.5 installer. :) * I like the newbie-friendly "Hit `A' to get default partition values for FreeBSD" in the slice editor. It even puts in a decent amount of swap. :) What I'd like to see is default values supplied for mount points for manual installation, the way BSD/OS does it. The first partition defaults to /, the second is swap, the third is /usr, the fourth is /var, the fifth is /home, etc. Doesn't have to be in that order, but it would be a nice touch. * The information dialogs between each section of the Express installation is a great idea! Again, more newbie-aware. :) * I'm using the entire disk (a 540-meg Maxtor SCSI, noisy as hell, this thing), bypassing whatever sanity checks are in the BIOS, according to the warning. I'll see how that works... * So far, not a single problem (almost done installing the kernel sources to disk via FTP)... * The timezone setting thing still doesn't seem right, for some reason... I'll have to go back and fiddle with it some more. I usually just make the /etc/localtime link myself and let ntpdate/timed take care of the clock setting. No real problems that I can see on my first try with this snapshot. Nice work, Jordan. -- Brian Tao System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"