Installer
Frank Laszlo
laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Tue Oct 12 13:33:08 PDT 2004
Newton 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
I'm sure its just the language barrier, but try to use your return key
sometime :)
and yes, sysinstall isnt very good, it could be vast improved upon. Not
that freebsd should have an installer like Fedora, SuSE, etc.., but
theres definately room for improvement.
-Frank Laszlo
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