From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 3 22:37:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03771 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03755 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA02924; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:36:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:36:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Mike Smith cc: Steve Roskowski , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install friendly? In-Reply-To: <199808031934.MAA00607@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > first - as a "new" user of FreeBSD, the install procedure drove me > > absolutely nuts. After 8 hours, I handed it over to a professional. 2 > > days, 8 reinstalls of Windows98 & FreeBSD and now it works. More on this > > later if it matters. > > Depends on whether these are pilot-error mistakes or genuine problems. Pilot errors *are* genuine problems. The whole point of interface design and usability engineering is to deal with pilot error. This entails making sure the pilot has a correct understanding of what they need to do, enabling them to do it with minimal opportunity for errors, and providing for recovery when errors do happen. Okay, now back to your regularly scheduled broadcast. :-) -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message