Newbie Experience

[Jerold McAllister]

backyard writes: 

> --- Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote: 
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
>> > Discussions like these leave me lost for words... 
>> 
>> Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. 
>> :-) 
>> 
>> > Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I
>> really don't see  
>> > what the
>> > problem is with sysinstall.
> 
> I'm in that club myself. It takes a few times to get
> it down, but it is simple once you know the basic
> steps of getting FreeBSD on a box. The trick is of
>>........
>  some excised
>>........ 
>
>> comprehensible unless you  
>> have the already-mentioned technical background.
> 
> I would have to concurr with this 100%. My first go at
> FreeBSD was a little rough do to this whole concept of
> two "partitionings." I thought to myself now why would
> anyone want to do this. I wouldn't consider myself at
> the time a novice, but I wouldn't consider myself too
> bright either... Now it makes perfect sense to have
> one partition and multiple slices. It makes an fstab
> look a lot nicer. 

Of course, I think you just said that backwards.
I think by FreeBSD terminology you probably mean one slice and
several partitions (a-h) in it... 

////jerry 

>               nothing more annoying then not
> having say a linux box boot because you selected the
> extended partitions number instead of the logical
> drive contained therein... and keeping track of a
> million partitions get old quick.  
> 
> 
> 
> -brian
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