Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:58:16 -0400 From: "Jerold McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <E1GMujI-0004JY-SS@sys35.mail.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060911220803.92966.qmail@web83101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060911220803.92966.qmail@web83101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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backyard writes: > --- Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > >> On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote: >> > Discussions like these leave me lost for words... >> >> Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. >> :-) >> >> > Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I >> really don't see >> > what the >> > problem is with sysinstall. > > I'm in that club myself. It takes a few times to get > it down, but it is simple once you know the basic > steps of getting FreeBSD on a box. The trick is of >>........ > some excised >>........ > >> comprehensible unless you >> have the already-mentioned technical background. > > I would have to concurr with this 100%. My first go at > FreeBSD was a little rough do to this whole concept of > two "partitionings." I thought to myself now why would > anyone want to do this. I wouldn't consider myself at > the time a novice, but I wouldn't consider myself too > bright either... Now it makes perfect sense to have > one partition and multiple slices. It makes an fstab > look a lot nicer. Of course, I think you just said that backwards. I think by FreeBSD terminology you probably mean one slice and several partitions (a-h) in it... ////jerry > nothing more annoying then not > having say a linux box boot because you selected the > extended partitions number instead of the logical > drive contained therein... and keeping track of a > million partitions get old quick. > > > > -brian > _______________________________________________ > 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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