Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 18:42:30 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.0.5A Installation observations. Message-ID: <199505310912.SAA11214@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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OK; I thought I'd do my bit for the cause, and have a tinker with the 2.0.5A bootdisk. I haven't gone any further coz the australian mirror isn't up yet 8) Here are some observations, based on reading the docco and then plunging into the setup process. 1) The FTP options screen gives no indication of whether options are set or not, and no apparent way of turning them off afterwards. I suspect that it should be two radiobuttons (failure options) and two checkboxes for the other options, rather than four menu entries. 2) The options->extra debugging says 'toggle', but all it does is turn it on, and the next option turns it off. Shouldn't that be another checkbox? 3) There are _lots_ of "Command output is on debugging screen" messages displayed, at possibly confusing times. I suspect that this is because I had the 'extra debugging' turned on, which is MSF. 4) (This has already been raised) In the master partition editor, the ESC-to-exit option should really be ESC-to-continue, as otherwise the gutfeeling implication is that you're abandoning your changes. 5) The "Distribution Selection" dialog has an accidental newline in the description text at the top of the dialog. (Nitpick) 6) In the "Network Configuration" dialog, the bottomline text displayed for the netmask option has a typo : "for this interfaace" 7) The netmask field in the "Network Configuration" dialog doesn't "work" - specifically, when you cursor out of it, it's cleared. When you exit the dialog, the debugging output shows no signs of setting the netmask. (I tried decimal, hex, and "my cat has fleas", none caused either an error or a result) 8) If the user fails to read the instructions saying DO NOT COME BACK UNTIL YOU HAVE A PPP connection (I don't, I was pretending 8) and comes back (or perhaps if the connection fails, or they "didn't mean it"), the extraction fails with a couple of "unknown error -1" messages and "couldn't extract all of the dists, Residue: bdf", and then proceeds to announce that the installation completed OK. 9) Selecting "Install" from the main menu with no slices defined causes a lockup with a blank blue screen. (You have to visit the slice editor first, I actually generated this by going through the whole process and then going back and deleteting the FreeBSD slice.) There are a few rough edges left, and I think that libdialog is responsible for a large number of these, but on the whole this is a very spiffy installation indeed. I can't wait to slather it all over my poor unsuspecting disks 8) Jordan : I'm aware that this is a public forum, and that you have a sore vertebra, but I suspect we should be asking your SO to thank you on our behalf 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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