From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 09:48:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA20412 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA20329 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xperj-0005x4-00; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:40:43 -0800 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:40:38 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Capriotti cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X based Free installation In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980106111025.0068aeec@pop.mpc.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Capriotti wrote: > Hey, folks. > > Is there any plan to make a X based installation for FreeBSD ? > > I've been thinking: It could make things easyer for those ppl - like me - > who have in-depth WINDOS background. ... > I was VERY frustrated when I first tryed to install Free (Back to 2.1 > version) and I just couldn't, because it wouldn't recognize my IDE CD-ROM > drive, and there was no clue why... then, when I was able to get the CD > working (long time and several attempts latter), I got very confused about > those new and hermetic concepts, info and language. And I was not exactly a > rookie. How would a graphically install help? I don't think it would in the examples you've given. If the CDROM can't be accessed, why would a graphical install indicate why, and a non-graphical install not? Why would concepts (info and language) displayed in a graphical dialog box be lessing confusing if those concepts where displayed in a non-graphical one? Don't get stuck in the trap that GUI is better, because. If the language is not understandable, it will not become understandable in a GUI. > Today's instasllation (2.2.1) is a bit better, more user friendly, but I Todays installation? 2.2.1 is ancient. Two releases have been made since. Tom