Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 16:42:31 -0800 (PST) From: Fernando Astorga <fernando@cea.Berkeley.EDU> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: fernando@cea.Berkeley.EDU (Fernando Astorga) Subject: Comments on 2.0 release Message-ID: <199503180042.QAA12595@monterey.cea.berkeley.edu>
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Hackers, I recently installed FreeBSD 2.0 from the CD-ROM on a 486-DX2/66 with an Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller. The README file said the send comments regarding the installation to hackers@FreeBSD.org, so here they are: 1) The installation interface was MUCH better than the 1.1 CD I had. What made it better was the support for my Adap 1522 Controller, which allowed me to install directly from the CD instead of from a DOS partition like last time (even this was better than using floppies). 2) When I was installing the XFree86-3.1 distribution, the CD-ROM hung forever and I had to start all over. First I thought it was the size of it in combination with my slow controller, but when I tried the src distribution (which is 160M vs 80M for XFree86), it worked fine. 3) Also, kermit was not in the packages distribution. I had to take it from the 1.1 distribution. 4) The 'fixit' installation was pretty useful. This usually helped me recover after I tried to install the XFree86 distribution and it failed. 5) The fdisk utility was way better that what was in there before. I like the fact the it recognized my SCSI drives and IDE drives and allowed me to keep my DOS paritions in both. 6) XFree86-3.1 has a wider range of support for graphics cards and chip sets. This time I was able to use SVGA instead of VGA. 7) The slip.FAQ might be out of date, since it worked 'as-is' in the 1.1 release, but not in the 2.0 release. Well, that's my $.02 worth. Congradualtions on your superior product. Fernando Astorga Undergrad -- UC Berkeley fernando@cea.berkeley.edu
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