From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 0:52: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC22C1508A for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 00:51:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20084; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:12:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:12:16 +1000 (EST) From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au Message-Id: <199909060812.SAA20084@goblin.apana.org.au> Received: from jdy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.133), claiming to be "jdy" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdR20082; Mon Sep 6 18:12:10 1999 X-Mailer: SendM@ail V1.09 To: notme@lvdi.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just a suggestion on installation Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm more critical than most of the practice of blindly following "the "established way" of doing most things, however the only problem I've had with FreeBSD installation is with doing it from floppies (never could get that to work) but I've never had any problem with CD installs. I'm not totally impressed with the /stand/sysinstall setup, but I feel some more explicit instructions (including screen dumps) is all thats needed to make it easier for newbies while not upsetting the status quo for those more experienced users who thrive on complexity. Although I believe that the current /stand/sysinstall is sufficent enough for installing FreeBSD, do you guys think it would be a good idea to offer an option for an almost fully automated installation. (For newbies, mostly. I could still remember my frist installation... although it was not an nightmare or anything, but it was relativly complicated... of course, after the first succesful one, everything is fine : ) I have heard from serveral of my friends that they tend to like Red Hat Linux's installation much better since it basically does everything for you. Perhaps this way our installation would be a bit "userfriendlier" :) just an suggestion. Frankie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message