From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 19 18:16:48 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 F319C37BC8A for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:16:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p51-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.116]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id LAA18233; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:16:35 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38AF3A00.BCD1CBB1@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:49:04 +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: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2 References: <3.0.3.32.20000219043230.009e2430@207.227.119.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jeffrey J. Mountin" wrote: > > At 10:36 AM 2/18/00 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >I will also say here and now that even I use the Standard installation > >since I don't like having to remember all the canonical steps in setting > >up a "stock" system and if anybody should remember them, it should be > >me - I've probably installed FreeBSD at least 50,000 times. :-) > > Ah, but doesn't the now-standard-install make a partition for /var and /tmp? No. The partitioner creates /, /usr, /var and swap if you say so. That's the exact same partitioner used in any installation mode. > I'd rather have a /, swap, and /usr. Then, at need, add drives at mount > points. No need to get into they why, what, and where, but suffice to say > is the main reason for using custom. The ports and X are added after the It's another indication that you misunderstand "novice" and "custom", proving that they are misnamed. -- 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