Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:48:22 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! Message-ID: <20020304124822.GU351@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <200203041132.g24BW5g50751@sheol.localdomain> References: <20020304181911.C483_osiris.sigterm.com@ns.sol.net> <005201c1c34f$f6b0f730$6f830acf_gdennyj@ns.sol.net> <200203041132.g24BW5g50751@sheol.localdomain>
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> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 05:32:05 -0600 (CST)
> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr)
> Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy!
> To: denny@jodeit.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
> In article <005201c1c34f$f6b0f730$6f830acf_gdennyj@ns.sol.net>,
> denny@jodeit.com writes:
> > It's gonna be a shock to you, but you need a clue or 2 before installing
> > FreeBSD.
> >
> > If you went out and bought install CD's to get started, you missed the boat
> > and should have researched on the web first.
>
> FreeBSD's install (and terminology thereof) is different enough from RedHat's
> where I could see an RH Linux user becoming confused during the install.
> RH's default desktop install does indeed put a more ready-to-rock environment
> on the destination disk - too much so, IMHO, but I prefer FreeBSD's lean-and-
> mean approach.
It all depends on one's POV. I certainly found it hilarious that
RH6 enabled (or at least did so on one machine I saw) virtually
*everything* by default. NFS client, NFS server, Samba, Apache...
You name it.
> FreeBSD's sysinstall has been a point of "controversy", and, IIRC, is
> undergoing some sort of overhaul, though I find it quite acceptable, myself.
Yup. The fact that you need to be really careful whether you press
space or enter in (almost) any one dialog through the install is
quite... sad.
ISTR that the reason for the rewrite wasn't the visual aspect of the
interface: I for one find it nicer than other installers I've seen,
including all the windows installers, YaST2, and others. The reason
was that sysinstall isn't very modular, and behavioral changes
require hacks.
That said, I've read about grieves the dialog library used in
sysinstall gives the programmers... I just hope future versions of
FreeBSD won't require any mouse clicks to install. Ability to
"script", "record" and "replay" installs would be great, too.
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