Am Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:08:02 -0500
schrieb Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org:
It's a change from before, but a normalization with respect to most
Linux distributions, since we are now using the same dialog as, e.g.,
Debian and Ubuntu.
-Nathan
Hi,
yes. And I want to thank you (and
On 25/07/2011 06:01, Freddie Cash wrote:
Thank goodness. The worst thing about sysinstall was that it tried to
be a Swiss Army knife doing everything, yet not doing any one thing
well. It made a royal mess of rc.conf if you tried to use it to
configure a system. Usually the first time someone
on 25/07/2011 07:47 Warren Block said the following:
2. The options don't always really apply. Create when ad0 is highlighted
leads
the user to think they can create a new device, like ad1. But it will really
create another partition. Delete on ad0 deletes all the partitions, not ad0.
On 07/25/2011 02:56, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 19:11, Claude Buisson wrote:
On 07/24/2011 23:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 25/07/2011 07:47 Warren Block said the following:
2. The options don't always really apply. Create when ad0 is highlighted leads
the user to think they can create a new device, like ad1. But it will really
create another partition. Delete on ad0
Quoting Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com:
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 25/07/2011 07:47 Warren Block said the following:
2. The options don't always really apply. Create when ad0 is
highlighted leads
the user to think they can create a new device, like ad1. But it
will
Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 18:03, Ron McDowell wrote:
Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at
2.0 and never really had a problem with
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM, eculp ec...@encontacto.net wrote:
That makes two of us right now. I gave up, accepted the automatic
partition and everything else went as expected, I suppose. The disk results
are:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
Quoting Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:46 AM, eculp ec...@encontacto.net wrote:
That makes two of us right now. I gave up, accepted the automatic
partition and everything else went as expected, I suppose. The disk results
are:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On 25/07/2011 06:01, Freddie Cash wrote:
Thank goodness. The worst thing about sysinstall was that it tried to be a
Swiss Army knife doing everything, yet not doing any one thing well. It made
a royal mess of rc.conf if
Hi Freddie Cash!
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:01:44 -0700; Freddie Cash wrote about 'Re: Trying to
install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange
installer.':
3) I see no post-install uses on the new one. Sysinstall could be used
on an up-and-running system to do
Hi Freddie Cash!
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:36:59 -0700; Freddie Cash wrote about 'Re: Trying to
install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange
installer.':
Thank goodness. The worst thing about sysinstall was that it tried to be a
Swiss Army knife doing
On 07/25/11 18:12, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
Hi Freddie Cash!
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:01:44 -0700; Freddie Cash wrote about 'Re: Trying to
install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange
installer.':
3) I see no post-install uses on the new one. Sysinstall could be
On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Freddie Cash wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On 25/07/2011 06:01, Freddie Cash wrote:
Thank goodness. The worst thing about sysinstall was that it tried to be a
Swiss Army knife doing everything, yet not doing any
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0
and never really had a problem with understanding the installation
program. There is always a first time, I guess.
Quoting Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at
2.0 and never really had a problem with understanding the
installation
Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0
and never really had a problem with understanding the installation
program. There is always a first
On 07/24/2011 23:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0
and never really had a problem with understanding the installation
program.
.. wait, the install-off-USB doesn't default to a read-only boot?
Adrian
On 25 July 2011 08:11, Claude Buisson clbuis...@orange.fr wrote:
On 07/24/2011 23:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed
On 07/24/11 19:11, Claude Buisson wrote:
On 07/24/2011 23:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at 2.0
and never really had a problem with
It does not. I had tried to match the behavior of the 8.x memsticks.
It's an easy change in /usr/src/release/ARCH/make-memstick.sh to change
it, however.
-Nathan
On 07/24/11 19:54, Adrian Chadd wrote:
.. wait, the install-off-USB doesn't default to a read-only boot?
Adrian
On 25 July 2011
Something tells me that's a disaster waiting to happen. Eg, if
something happens, and the installer disk gets corrupted, people may
blame freebsd for being unstable, email questions to freebsd-* mailing
lists asking why X doesn't work (only for it to work when the image is
written out again), etc,
On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote:
1) no back button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting
because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well,
unacceptable.
2) no minimal install. Most of my installs are single- or few-task
servers where I need a base os and a
On 07/24/11 18:03, Ron McDowell wrote:
Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 16:29, eculp wrote:
I have been hearing about a new installer but I obviously have not
payed enough attention, I am afraid. I started running freebsd at
2.0 and never really had a problem with understanding the
Yes, I agree. I'll ask re@ to change it.
-Nathan
On 07/24/11 20:02, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Something tells me that's a disaster waiting to happen. Eg, if
something happens, and the installer disk gets corrupted, people may
blame freebsd for being unstable, email questions to freebsd-* mailing
On 07/24/11 20:03, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote:
1) no back button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting
because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well,
unacceptable.
2) no minimal install. Most of my installs are single- or few-task
On 25/07/2011 02:08, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
On 07/24/11 20:03, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 25/07/2011 00:03, Ron McDowell wrote:
1) no back button/selection/mechanism on each screen. Rebooting
because I fat-fingered something on the previous screen is, well,
unacceptable.
2) no minimal install.
On Sunday, July 24, 2011, Ron McDowell r...@fuzzwad.org wrote:
I'll have to agree with the original poster. I have no problem with the
look and feel of the new installer, but when functionality that WAS there is
now gone, that's a problem. My two, make that three, biggest gripes are:
1) no
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you would
prefer be changed? Reminiscent of the 1980s is not really helpful,
especially given that the new installer in fact looks very much like
sysinstall, which you seemed to like.
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