Installer

[Jerry McAllister]

> 

Geez, another top poster who mangles the flow of the thread!!

////jerry

> 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
> >
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