Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 17:36:56 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: New 2.0 system... Much improved install Message-ID: <199501280036.RAA00149@rover.village.org>
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Greetings I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to 2.0. I must admit that I was quite nervous at this prospect, given the amount of negative things I had seen. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of the install procedure. I was able to get up and running with a minimum of hassle. The install procedure looks very nice, especially the disk partition and label stuff. I did notice a couple of things have likely been corrected since the 2.0 cdrom, but I thought I'd pass them along just in case they are not known. 1) My ethernet card isn't at the standard place. Since my old kernel saw it, I didn't even think to look into chaning its IO, etc. However, the install did prompt me for a hostname an so forth, but it seemed to throw this info away. It would have been nice if I could say "oh, dang, my ed0 interface is really and truly there, please pretend it is and write the config file." 2) It would be nice to be able to install packages from the install progam at the same time I'm installing the rest of the system. It would also be nice to be able to get the kernel source w/o having to get the entire system source. I don't have the disk space for the source now that I've moved Linux and NT onto my 1G disk. It would also be nice to be able to pick and choose my X server, rather than having them all installed (but maybe I did something wrong). It would also be nice to have the setup program convert the old Xconfig files that I had to new ones, but since I had done a newfs, that doesn't seem to practical. All in all this is *MUCH* improved over the 1.0R days, or even the 1.1.5R install. Looks a lot nicer. Oh, there was one last thing, I had to keep booting off of my floppy during the install since FreeBSD wasn't the "master" OS (first one on the disk), otherwise I came up in NT. It would be nice if there was a warning for this, as it took me a little bit of fiddling to get that right. No biggie, but would make the install nicer. Warner
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