From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 19 14: 2:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (chilled.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7D037BCBF; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@freebsddiary.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA51122; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:02:10 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200002192202.LAA51122@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:02:10 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2 Reply-To: dan@freebsddiary.org Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <38AF1186.8D04CE12@newsguy.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Feb 00, at 6:56, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "Guided". I like it. That's *PRECISELY* what this installation option > is. There is NO difference in the number of choices available in any of > the three types. I have many times encountered a user who avoided the NOVICE install and tried one of the other methods. They clearly lacked the skill necessary to perform anything *other* than a NOVICE install. I suspect they avoided the NOVICE install because they didn't consider themselves a novice ("But I've been using Linux for years!"). I think calling it GUIDED will certainly reduce the number of calls for help. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited [I'm looking for more work] The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/ unix @ home - http://www.unixathome.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message