Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:10:18 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@sunyit.edu> To: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Capriotti" <capriotti@geocities.com> Subject: Re: X based Free installation Message-ID: <199801061818.SAA11105@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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what would be the point? to have X installed you have to already have freebsd installed. the latest installer (2.2.5) is pretty cool anyway, although slightly buggy when it fails to initialize install medias. if anyone were to do something nice for installs it would be to show a simple tutorial on making a bootable blank freebsd disk, disklable firghtens me :) honestly i will admit a shamefull secret, to make a bootable disk i've had to install freebsd from scratch... not a pretty site, and i _do_ RTFM a lot :) -Alfred ---------- > From: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com> > To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: X based Free installation > Date: Tuesday, January 06, 1998 8:10 AM > > Hey, folks. > > Is there any plan to make a X based installation for FreeBSD ? > > I've been thinking: It could make things easyer for those ppl - like me - > who have in-depth WINDOS background. > > Of course further details like "Do you want this machine to be an NFS > Server ?" or "Do you want this machine to be an NFS Client ?" and other may > still bbe a problem, but this is another step. > > I was VERY frustrated when I first tryed to install Free (Back to 2.1 > version) and I just couldn't, because it wouldn't recognize my IDE CD-ROM > drive, and there was no clue why... then, when I was able to get the CD > working (long time and several attempts latter), I got very confused about > those new and hermetic concepts, info and language. And I was not exactly a > rookie. > > Today's instasllation (2.2.1) is a bit better, more user friendly, but I > guess it can get better. >
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