Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:12:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990302161250.U441@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36DB66A0.65D77ACF@eboa.com>; from Roelof Osinga on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 05:18:40AM %2B0100 References: <36DB66A0.65D77ACF@eboa.com>
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[following up to -questions] On Tuesday, 2 March 1999 at 5:18:40 +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > <<The FreeBSD boot floppies contains all the on-line documentation you > should need to be able to navigate through an installation and if it does > not then we would like to know what you found most confusing. Send > your comments to the FreeBSD documentation project mailing list > <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>. It is the objective of the FreeBSD > installation program (sysinstall) to be self-documenting enough that > painful ``step-by-step'' guides are no longer necessary. It may take > us a little while to reach that objective, but that is the objective!>> > > Well, since you asked... The thing I found completely baffling at my > first try was that no settings whatsoever got carried from the install > process to the definitive kernel. Since most modern systems do that, > I was under the impression that I got myself a working system. So, > when it turned out that was not the case I checked near everything > *but* the kernel. Not a good start. They should do. What version are you trying to install? This could be a bug. > Another thing you might want to improve has to do with the slice > system. The problem with that is that you get one humonguous partition. > Not all of which necessarily will fit below the dreaded 1024 cylinder > boundary of the BIOS. With todays bigger disks you might want to > draw some attention to that. Especially when CHS has been selected > instead of LBA. As of course yours truly is wont to have. This, of course, has nothing to do with -doc; I'm copying -questions on the issue. First, the standard install is three file system partitions and a swap partition, so I don't understand how you got only one unless you asked for it. Secondly, not all BIOSes have this limitation any more. And finally, yes, I suppose we should recommend LBA addressing. Disks are rather a moving target at the moment, and we're just trying to keep up. > Some lesser things. A good thing is that several HTML docs come > with it. So why no HTML browser like lynx? I thought it was there. > (X-User install). Another thing I can't quite grock is why I keep > reading about all those new XFree86 drivers I need, like the Matrox, > have been released, yet that somehow never seem to make it into > whatever it is I'm downloading. Take the Matrox, the XFree86 > website claims it is now fully supported in the 3.3.1 release. So > how come I can't seem to find it in the FreeBSD distribution that > claims to deliver 3.3.1? That sort of thing can be truly > infuriating. Possibly. Nevertheless, the version we supply is straight from the XFree86 project, and it does support "the Matrox" (well, the Millenium, anyway). This could be a documentation problem with the XFree86 distribution. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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