Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:25:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Mr D Whitehead <davew@sees.bangor.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation a suggestion Message-ID: <199612181725.RAA19050@davewpc.sees.bangor.ac.uk>
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Hi, Just a thought. As there seem to be quite a lot of people who have installation/update problems from either tape or dos partitions how about adding the following to both the ftp servers and the CD. 1) A Dos (shudder) batch file to check the subdirectory structure on a dos partition from which FreeBSD will be installed. Not difficult, just a large collection of 'if exist ...'. 2) A *nix script to ftp the distribution to a tape in the right order and form. This should be written very generally so that it could be run on non-FreeBSD machines. I personally do buy the CD and use it without problems at work, however upgrading machines at other locations without either/both an Internet connection and/or CD drive and (maybe) with a shortage of memory usually means a juggling act. Granted this task is straight forward but it is (often) done late at night when human frailty caused lots of mistakes which can be very time consuming. I suspect that an inexperienced (first time) installer can get into serious trouble under these circumstances we may even be loosing users/converts at this stage, not everyone will send an Email to say 'help I got into trouble', many people walk away muttering 'it does not work'. Some small assistance as outined above may well pay rewards well in excess of the effort needed to create the scripts. Unfortunatly to perform optimally the scripts would have to be adjusted for each release and would therefore have to be prepared by the kind, generous, hardworking people at the heart of things. As I said, just a thought, please do'nt shoot if you dissagree. Dave Whitehead ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMAIL:- | TELEPHONE (work):- (work) davew@sees.bangor.ac.uk | +44 1248 382703 (Direct line) (home) 100023.1076@compuserve.com | +44 1248 351151 ext 2703 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SNAIL MAIL:- Dave Whitehead School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Systems, University College of North Wales, Dean Street, Bangor LL57 1UT ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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