Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:44:47 +0100 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> To: Bob Hinden <hinden@Ipsilon.COM> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments on 2.0.5 Install Message-ID: <15083.803688287@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 1995 06:28:25 PDT." <199506202219.PAA02766@servo.ipsilon.com>
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> 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
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