Installer

[Newton]

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