Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:06:54 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <p0510100bb7710cdeaa17@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3B4B07DE.4801D208@iowna.com> References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> <3B4B07DE.4801D208@iowna.com>
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At 9:49 AM -0400 7/10/01, Bill Moran wrote: >Wes Peters wrote: > > > Oh, come now. FreeBSD's disk partitioning has always sucked. > > It does suck somewhat less than many Linux linstallers, and a > > lot less than the OpenBSD installer, actually, there are a few things about the openbsd partitioning setup which I kinda like... :-) > > but it still shoves way too many details and options at the > > average user. Something akin to PartitionMagic would be an > > ideal way to go, given unlimited resources to throw against > > this particular problem. > >Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find the >FreeBSD partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest one I've >ever used. What should be changed to make it easier? The main problem I have seen with this discussion is that the current partitioning program works well for you (Bill). Every time anyone suggests something, you reply that it seems frivolous to you, or that there is no other installer that you personally have used which does a better job. We're not trying to suggest things to make partitioning easier for YOU, we're suggesting things which would make it nicer/easier/friendlier for US, or people that we deal with. Pretty much every time I have used the disk-partitioning software for freebsd I have hated it. The *reason* I hate it changes from run-to-run, but I've never been particularly happy with it. It is clear that you've had better luck with it than I have. I think I'll just leave it at that, instead of trying to interest you in making some changes to it. I do not mean this as a sarcastic jab, I am just making the observation that the current setup seems to work well for you, and thus you're not going to be as interested in changing it as we might have hoped. I do wish I could find someone who was interested in making changes to it, though. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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