In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anatoly Vorobey writes:
: I'm actually scared by "novice" because it would be inflicting on me
: defaults I would almost probably not want. I never run anything but
: "custom", and I suspect many people do the same.
I'm much too impatient to run anything but express.
Jonathan Lemon wrote:
In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Kai Großjohann wrote:
"Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really kinda wish you'd point them to Novice^H^H^H^H^HStandard
instead since it does more than be a bit more verbose, it
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=
writes:
: Does this mean that this option should be called `guided'? I know a
: little bit about Unix but haven't installed FreeBSD more than five
: times or so. And I always thought that the novice install meant that
: I didn't
"Brian J. McGovern" wrote:
I don't know if I agree. "Custom" is exactly what it says... You can build
out the system with specifically the components you want. Now, perhaps I'm out
That proves "Custom" is not exactly what it says. You can do the same
thing with Novice. ALL installation modes
On 20 Feb 00, at 6:56, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
"Guided". I like it. That's *PRECISELY* what this installation option
is. There is NO difference in the number of choices available in any of
the three types.
I have many times encountered a user who avoided the NOVICE install
and tried one of
In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Kai Großjohann wrote:
"Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really kinda wish you'd point them to Novice^H^H^H^H^HStandard
instead since it does more than be a bit more verbose, it also makes
sure that all the
Brian Beattie wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
"Guided". I like it. That's *PRECISELY* what this installation option
is. There is NO difference in the number of choices available in any of
the three types.
Guided/Express/Expert. That's my vote.
This still
Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:28:45PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Novice is ok, it's the other two that are problematic. Well,
particularly "custom". "Custom" does not scare away anyone, and is
actually actractive to Windows users. It should be called "death
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Kai Großjohann wrote:
"Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really kinda wish you'd point them to Novice^H^H^H^H^HStandard
instead since it does more than be a bit more verbose, it also makes
sure that all the appropriate
Kai Großjohann wrote:
"Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really kinda wish you'd point them to Novice^H^H^H^H^HStandard
instead since it does more than be a bit more verbose, it also makes
sure that all the appropriate steps are covered and prevents even
relatively
"Jeffrey J. Mountin" wrote:
At 10:36 AM 2/18/00 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
I will also say here and now that even I use the Standard installation
since I don't like having to remember all the canonical steps in setting
up a "stock" system and if anybody should remember them, it should
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:28:45 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Novice is ok, it's the other two that are problematic. Well,
particularly "custom". "Custom" does not scare away anyone, and is
actually actractive to Windows users. It should be called "death trap"
or something
Doug Barton wrote:
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
Hmmm. Odd, I've always noted the opposite. If you do the novice install
(which everyone should if they're trying to test the "typical case"),
I've always found the term "novice" to be a little off-putting. Perhaps
"Standard
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:28:45PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Novice is ok, it's the other two that are problematic. Well,
particularly "custom". "Custom" does not scare away anyone, and is
actually actractive to Windows users. It should be called "death trap"
or something like that...
it makes sense to slice it that way. Also, as far as teaching new users how
to install it, I _always_ show them the custom route. While this may sound
harsh, its used to familarize them with all of sub-components, and
I really kinda wish you'd point them to Novice^H^H^H^H^HStandard
instead
"Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really kinda wish you'd point them to Novice^H^H^H^H^HStandard
instead since it does more than be a bit more verbose, it also makes
sure that all the appropriate steps are covered and prevents even
relatively skilled people from hanging
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
Hmmm. Odd, I've always noted the opposite. If you do the novice install
(which everyone should if they're trying to test the "typical case"),
I've always found the term "novice" to be a little off-putting. Perhaps
"Standard Install" would be a better
OK folks, here's some feedback on 4.0-RC2 from somebody who hasn't done a CD
install in a while ... I got my new HDD in last night, put her in the machine
and let it rip. Here's the things I found that either puzzled me or might
stand a bit of enhancement before RC2-RELEASE.
o As I've seen
John Reynolds~ wrote:
o Finally, again, it seems to me that the skeleton .cshrc, .profile,
etc. files that are used for accounts creating during install should have the
following variables set:
setenv LC_ALL en_US.ISO_8859-1
setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.ISO_8859-1
setenv LANG
"Install" button and things proceeded to install with no hitches--however, i
t
seemed that randomly (because I couldn't pick out any pattern to it) the
screen would flash back to the "FreeBSD Configuration Menu" as it cycled
through new packages to install. The gray dialog that shows
On 17 Feb, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
[Cc stripped]
o Finally, again, it seems to me that the skeleton .cshrc, .profile,
etc. files that are used for accounts creating during install should have the
following variables set:
setenv LC_ALL en_US.ISO_8859-1
setenv LC_CTYPE
On 17-Feb-00 John Reynolds~ wrote:
OK folks, here's some feedback on 4.0-RC2 from somebody who hasn't done a CD
install in a while ... I got my new HDD in last night, put her in the machine
and let it rip. Here's the things I found that either puzzled me or might
stand a bit of enhancement
[ On Thursday, February 17, John Baldwin wrote: ]
[printing ATA message about "waiting"]
Soren's been bugged about this, bug him some more. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BUG BUG BUG :)
Hmm, it used to say something to that effect a while back.
can't comment. I haven't done a CD install in a
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