Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:03:58 -0400 From: James Skinner <james@tunasafedolphin.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer Message-ID: <9E075442-1C9A-11D9-ADD3-000A95AF1690@tunasafedolphin.org> In-Reply-To: <200410122145.i9CLjxu22113@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200410122145.i9CLjxu22113@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Personally, I think the FreeBSD install is incredibly simple. It really could not be easier, but if you want one that is, try DragonFlyBSD. The install of that is very, very simple, but you may run into issues with certain software packages. Jamie On Oct 12, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> Dear Friends : I'm a Linux user since 1,999 and I'm really interested >> in >> start FreeBSD. OK, it's a new system, different versions and so on. My >> experience with computers started with Basic, after MS-DOS, Windows >> and >> Linux. When I tried Linux, 5 years-ago, partitions, kde, window maker >> and many of them, were only words. My first fear, was erase my HD. I >> did >> it many times, but I knew how to start again or recover. I'm writing >> these things, cause in these years using Linux, I saw a big evolution >> , >> specially the installer. Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware and >> another, made a goob job and you can do it , almost without problems. >> But, when I tried FreeBSD installer, I remembered Debian, the worst >> installer ! Probably another distributions, like Knoppix, Kurumin , >> Gnoppix to name a few, trying to make the life user easiest ! My first >> experience with FreeBSD, was 5.0, with a PC Master, brazilian >> magazine. >> After many tries, a XFree86 error, when I typed startx, disappointed >> me >> again and, I forgot it... On the last month, I downloaded the 2 CDs, >> 5.2.1, and, the same installer, errors, infinite loops... very >> disappointing ! I tried many lists, and with some support,to resolve >> or >> not, the problems. Again, I format my system and, here I am, with >> Windows (mainly for games and a problematic usb scanner) and Linux. I >> need a more stable system. Many people talked me very good about >> FreeBSD. For me, until now , the biggest deception ! Please, I don't >> know the FreeBSD objectives, but if you would like that more and more >> people can use it, CHANGE this installer. Confuse , in one word ! >> Disappointing ! I tried standard, express, custom , all packages, >> minimum, all kind of ways... I can't understand a looped install. >> Almost >> 2 hours after, an error... My video card is recognized , but when you >> did post-install, not ! You tried many XFrre86 configs and not.... >> When >> something happens and finally you can start KDE or GNOME or another, >> DHCP don't run and so on. Please change this installer and trying to >> better hardware and network configuration ! Until this, I'll never >> tried >> FreeBSD again ! Sincerely, Newton - Curitiba - Brazil > > The nice thing about the installer is that it works. > Too bad you will be cutting yourself off from a good system > because you will not take the time to learn it. > You miss so much in life. > > ////jerry > > _______________________________________________ > 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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