Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:18:21 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: SNAP 0801 observations Message-ID: <199608121518.RAA01921@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Wanted to install on sd2 (have sd0, sd1 and sd2). Chose Custom->Partition [ ] sd0 [ ] sd1 [X] sd2 (hitting the blank key throws me into that partition menu) A Q [*] Bootmgr (chose this and get the same [ ] sd0 [ ] sd [ ] sd2 screen) I assume (hope) this refers only to the boot menu being written to the selected drive. But later this menu pops up again with two [X] (one at sd0 and one at sd2). I stopped here and decided to write the Bootmgr later and bailed out. I'd suggest to have a different menu/box asking where the bootmanager should be written or combine it into one. The selection of the distribution, especially X11 is still requiring some getting accustomized. There is an Exit entry and an [OK] button. Hitting OK leaves you into that menu while in other cases you leave it. This is a bit inconsistent. Please, don't take it like nitpicking, the installation menu is very fine already - I tried to install a German Linux (S.u.s.e.) distribution over the weekend, they don't have an install floppy at all. DOS is required to bootstrap yourself, go figure - Anyway, these are the two observations I made and which I found a bit puzzling. One last observation: I tried to use that 0801 boot.flp to do a 2.1.0 installation from CD. I got a warning that the CD is pre-2.1.5 but I chose to continue the installation. After a while I got the messages that bin dist and some other distributions could not be installed and that the installation failed. :-( --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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