Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:28:03 -0500 From: "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> To: "Bob Johnson" <bob89@bobj.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Donald Turnbull <dmturnbull@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: Installation - More user friendly Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEHPFOAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <200403072022.16736.bob89@bobj.org>
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Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. That should be followed with option for standard basic install using whole hard drive from cdrom, and no questions from that point on. Behinds the scenes, fdisk deletes all hard drive partitions, disklable uses auto config, skip config is taken, distro of kernel source, no x-server, and no to all other questions, except set root password and timezone. Then for the original way, for each option question, give info about what this option enables and why one would enable it. Example enable NFS server (yes / NO) NFS stands for (Network File server) An advanced function where by this system you are installing will have an (Local Area Network) behind it and you want this system to share It's disk space with the other FBSD PC's on the lan. Answering yes will start the NFS server on this system and all the FBSD pc on the Lan must have the NFS client running to access and share the NFS servers disk space. Will not work with MS/windows PC on the Lan. Can be enabled later by rc.conf statements. Only answer yes if you know for certain you are going to use this function in the immediate future. This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible handbook. That is what I see is missing from the sysinstall process and why it is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bob Johnson Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Donald Turnbull Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:49 pm, Donald Turnbull <Donald Turnbull <dmturnbull@yahoo.com>> wrote: > Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more > user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example > like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology > is to make people lives easier right? > It seems pretty friendly to me. It really helps to read the directions first, though. By "user friendly" do you mean "pretty", or do you have a specific complaint about some aspect that needs to be improved? Which SPECIFIC part of the install should be changed, and how should it be changed? - Bob _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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