fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

[JoaoBR]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:10:06 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:51:07PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:30 +0100, Chris wrote:
> > > A more user friendly installer so datacentres stop been put off
> > > FreeBSD.
> >
> > Although work on a new installer is "ongoing", nobody ever seems to be
> > clear what the problems are with the current installer that they are
> > trying to fix.  I believe PC-BSD uses a different installer, which is
> > the current candidate, although I personally prefer the current one.
> > I'm guessing a new installer never make everybody happy.
>
> As someone who has had to show many people "how" to use the FreeBSD
> installer, I can confirm what Chris is referring to.

datacenters probably do not use the installer at all but that is another point

further to the points you mentioned already I like to add that the most 
missing thing is that the installer does not suggest a default disk layout.

Jumping directly into fdisk is where a user aborts and also as mentioned, 
since disk geometry is not necessary to show at all, first because it is 
mostly wrong and second who cares. This is not for a standard installer and 
should be an option (if).

a user does not know what fdisk is and what to do (and eventually he does not 
even speak nor read english so the options list is what scares him still 
more) 

so he is bailing out here and for my understandings this is the most important 
point which cause freebsd does not make it to the user's desktop. 

So a better solution would be to invert the current situation and give a 
default layout for fdisk AND labels which can be accepted (<OK>) or cancelled 
and if then jumps into fdsik for advanced users

My personal suggestion is to invert the IP screen and put GW and DNS after IP 
and mask fields what is kind of more usual and logical





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João







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