From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 21:56:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF4937B419 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C9DC31B9C52; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:58:07 -0700 (PDT) To: Mark Filipak Cc: Jan Grant , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mark asks: How should I partition/slice for appliance? References: <3CC4D69D.86A86352@earthlink.net> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 22 Apr 2002 21:58:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3CC4D69D.86A86352@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <87lmbfc8ps.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Filipak writes: | The install blew up just like it did two years ago. [...] So the root runs | out of space and what the installer does then is ugly. THIS SHOULD BE | FIXED. I can't believe the installer is as stooopid as it was two years ago. Mark, I love you, man, but this constant insulting of the installer is uncalled for. After all, *you* are the installer. You're using a program to do it, but you're the one doing the installation. The installer is fine. Utilitarian, terse, but fine. What it's not doing, and what you seem to be objected to most vociferously, is that it's not holding your hand and catching your mistakes, nor is it reading your mind. You're charging down a road with only partial information, expecting it to work flawlessly, and being angry that the program didn't catch your error. I'm sorry, but it's not going to work that way. Mea maxima culpa, but FreeBSD isn't a paragon of user-friendliness. It's still rather utilitarian in nature. It's a great operating system, but not a great friendly experience with lots of painstaking help for the novice. If it were, you'd need a lot more than a 1 GiB drive, that's for sure. Now, granted, I think FreeBSD is eventually headed that direction. But it's not there yet, so let's try to roll with things and stop with the "But it didn't do what I MEANT" stuff. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message