Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 12:11:11 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Install kudos Message-ID: <199508311811.MAA06837@trout.sri.MT.net>
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Path: helena.MT.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!gol1!usenet From: MICHAEL <michael@gnj.or.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD - Very easy to install! Date: 30 Aug 1995 13:09:46 GMT Organization: GNJ Spectrum Lines: 46 Message-ID: <421nuq$nvo@gol1.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: admin.gnj.or.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I still don't know if FreeBSD is more stable than Linux, but I'll say this much: FreeBSD is 10 million times easier to install than Linux was! The 2.0.5 CD-ROM took me less than an hour to install, as opposed to four days for Linux. The FreeBSD installer automates quite a lot: the partitioning and formatting, setting up the X configuration file and so on. Also, setting up an automatic boot record in the master disk is completely painless, unlike Linux's "LILO" system. Also, all my devices were recognized to start with. The Linux setup seems to handle setting up of the Ethernet card more automatically though...I still haven't figured out where that setup is. Some suggestions/comments: o The partition feature in Install is a bit cryptic. The help for partition doesn't explain what the size units are, nor does it say that in the next step sub-partitions will be made for swap space, etc. o As someone mentioned elsewhere, the mouse device name does not seem to be mentioned anywhere (for X configuration). o The "boot from DOS" feature does not seem to work -- at least for me. It keeps booting DOS again, as opposed to booting FreeBSD. However it was quite easy to make a bootable floppy that worked the first time (as opposed to trying half-a-dozen variations of boot floppies in Linux). There are all minor comments though. I think the person or people who wrote the automatic installation procedures are really to be complemented. They have made installing a Unix system as easy as it can be. MICHAEL __________________________________________ GNJ Spectrum Tokyo +81-3-5377-2401 (I%(J michael@gnj.or.jp Featuring Internet, OneNet and Pride International Networks IP Address 202.243.53.3, Port 3004
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