Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:18:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@iagi.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: On the install procedure Message-ID: <19980.801951480@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 95 11:28:22 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950531111606.8092B-100000@bigdipper.iagi.net>
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> 1. During any extraction processes, one has to sit there and wait with > nothing to do. It would be nice if on the Alt-F2 screen the > untar/ungzipping would be done verbosely so that one could watch the > various filenames go zipping by. That's much easier to sit through than a > static screen and a churning disk. This should be pretty easy to do I > suspect. Turn extra debugging mode on. It won't show you the filenames (yet - I'll change that) but it will show you plenty of other stuff to keep you occupied.. I was going to put a little VGA "space invaders" game on VTY5, but we ran out of time.. :-) > 2. It would be nice if tzsetup would either set your CMOS clock to > GMT for you, or at least tell you what the heck to set it to based on > your timezone. It took me a while to figure out what the heck GMT was so > I could set the CMOS clock to it. I don't think this is easy to do. > 3. The sysinstall asked me twice what my net info was, and still didn't > retain it. Once during package retrieval when I told it to get them via > FTP. Again after the install to set up some basic files. Yet when it Huh? There's no FTP option for package retreival! :-) It should probably not bring itself up if the network is already configured, but I didn't want to have the nightmare of the 2.0 install repeated where you'd enter a bogus value for something and then when you tried to go back, the generic "get his network parameters" routine would say "Hey, I've already got this stuff, I'll just return." Screaming frustration and a reset. I could get around this by making several entrypoints to that dialog, one of which would wipe all the old values first, but there are only so many hours in the day.. :-) I'll try to get to it. > Can't think of anything else offhand. It is basically an excellent > install - easier than any other Unix I've installed (Linux, UnixWare, > NextStep, OSF/1 3.2 (on an Alpha)). I think the FTP install is a great > idea. Gee, thanks! Praise! It's nice to get a little of that amid all the rocks flying in this direction! :-) > Congrats, BTW. 2.0.5 (close enough anyway, I'm running a SUP of about > 5/25/95) is rock solid - as solid, in fact, as our old 1.1.5.1 box. Yep, > I said old - I've updated it to FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950528 and it is > working great! This I like to hear! Thanks for the feedback.. Jordan
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