From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 19 12:14:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EA737BC1A; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:14:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p10-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.11]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id FAA15583; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:12:45 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38AEF905.A3512928@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:11:49 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: Doug Barton , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2 References: <200002181512.KAA01992@spoon.beta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian J. McGovern" wrote: > > I don't know if I agree. "Custom" is exactly what it says... You can build > out the system with specifically the components you want. Now, perhaps I'm out That proves "Custom" is not exactly what it says. You can do the same thing with Novice. ALL installation modes give you the same granularity of components. The difference is: Novice -- automatically steps through all phases of installation, with explanations at each step Expert -- automatically steps through all phases of installation Custom -- requires the user to select by hand the installation phases All the Custom installation really gives you is: * The ability to avoid phases you won't be needing * The ability to shoot yourself in the foot The last one can be useful in some rather rare cases. > Now, I'll admit, that custom may be a bit daunting to people who are new to > Operating Systems. But, even in the Windows enviornment, > "Custom Installations" are usually documented as a route for those who are > clue as to what they're doing, and "Standard" or "Quick" installs are for > the others. Exactly. That's not how FreeBSD installation options are set up. Which is the whole point. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message