FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

Sunnz sunnzy at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 23:07:50 PST 2007


2007/1/4, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>:
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>
> So, you won't get much sympathy on weaknesses in the installer that
> only gets used twice per year and especially to make it more (ugghh gaaag)
> microslothty.
>

Perhaps the stability of FBSD has led to the infrequent use of the
installer for (re)installation. Think about it: if you are using the
installer frequent enough to worry about how it look like, what are
you doing? Reinstalling your OS every several months?

On the other hand, the FBSD installer is very Microsoft-ly, the WinXP
installer doesn't have any fancy graphics at first boot, where you do
the partition/fs-format stuff - it only display a nice Microsoft Ad
thing when it starts actually installing, which I always leave it by
itself anyway.


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