From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 15:44:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA20714 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:44:52 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA20703 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:44:38 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA15085; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:44:47 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: whisker.internet-eireann.ie: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Bob Hinden cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments on 2.0.5 Install In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 1995 06:28:25 PDT." <199506202219.PAA02766@servo.ipsilon.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:44:47 +0100 Message-ID: <15083.803688287@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > binaries but no X sources. What I got was no X at all. I think it would be > helpful if this menu choice was clearer. Agreed, will do! > I found the disk partition and label parts of the install a bit skimpy on > online documentation. I would have been helped more if gave me more guidance > on what to create. Perhaps a options where it will set up all three unix > partitions (root, swap, /usr) with default sizes for root and swap would make > it easier. Also agreed. > I was also supprised to find that when I did the second install that it did n ot > find the labels I had created for the first install. It made me do them over > again. That's because the label assignments aren't actually stored anywhere but /etc/fstab, and I didn't particularly feel like writing a parser.. :) > The package part of the install only tried to find a CDROM. There did not > appear to be a way to also get it to use FTP. This would be a nice addition. We need to first make the pkg tools deal with ftp somehow, which means some way of eating pre-calculated index files. Considering that the pkg_manage tool already takes quite a long time to do it even with a quad-speed CDROM, I suspect that this is the route we'll eventually go anyway. > Overall it was very nice and I like FreeBSD a lot! Hope this is helpful. It was, thanks for the feedback! Jordan