From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 23 22:32:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A5937B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from there [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AA5A14BE00C2; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:31:54 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: chip To: Terry Lambert , David Schultz Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:31:16 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: "f.johan.beisser" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20020123223104.SM01952@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 23 January 2002 04:57 pm, Terry Lambert banged out on the ke= ys: > David Schultz wrote: > > I think FreeBSD's installer could be better, too, but it works in a > > fairly straightforward manner as long as you don't have strange > > hardware. > > FreeBSD's disk "slicing" and "partitioning" really sucks. > > It's pretty damn unforgiving, in fact. > Grrr. > > -- Terry Hope you all don't mind my .02 worth, I'm just a typical (?) end-user. Be= en=20 using FreeBSD less than 2 years, installed it maybe a dozen times or so,=20 always 'dangerously dedicated'. I've never had a problem understanding th= e=20 partitioning screens. I'm not a developer or programmer of any kind. I us= e=20 FBSD for my home workstation, also have a machine for the firewall, and a= =20 third for a web/mysql server.=20 I've always found it quite simple (I've had more problems with MS OS's,=20 especially on laptops, I'm an NT :-( network admin, at work) - the first=20 thing I did was give / 100 megs, then give /swap double whatever the ram = is,=20 and the rest goes to /usr. When all's said and done, I symlink /tmp to=20 /usr/tmp and /var to /usr/var.=20 I know there are many other ways to set up partitions, with multiple OS's= =20 etc, but it never was as difficult as I've read and been led to believe.=20 I suppose there's room for improvement, since the apparent goal of many O= S's=20 is to dummy-down the install procedure so the complete computer-illiterat= e=20 can handle it, no questions asked.=20 It's been a few months since the last install (the last update was 4.4-r = that=20 I installed), and I'll be installing 4.5-r soon as the iso is downloadabl= e.=20 If it's of any interest, I'll be glad to post my install experiences and=20 general thoughts, pertaining to the partition section in particular. Or, maybe I've just been 'lucky' and not had any problems? :-) Regards, --=20 Chip www.wiegand.org <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patc= h to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message