Re: New installation script

2011-08-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Aug 7, 2011 11:49 PM, "Mark Linimon" wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:18:02PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > I initially chose "traditional Unix workstation", which was unusable. > > (Never did find the control or escape key, which made vi particularly > > difficult to use.) > > It shou

Re: New installation script

2011-08-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:18:02PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I initially chose "traditional Unix workstation", which was unusable. > (Never did find the control or escape key, which made vi particularly > difficult to use.) It should probably be labeled "old-fart Unix user" which would have

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/06/2011 07:52, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> This is, to some extent, a deliberate design decision. The idea is that >> if you are installing onto an existing partition with the right type, >> then you really do just want to use it without ne

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/06/2011 07:52, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > This is, to some extent, a deliberate design decision. The idea is that > if you are installing onto an existing partition with the right type, > then you really do just want to use it without newfs. Actually, if I am reinstalling I really do want to

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/06/11 12:18, Garrett Wollman wrote: In article<4e3d55fd.7090...@freebsd.org>, nwhiteh...@freebsd.org writes: I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. Whenever you add a / partition on a partitioning scheme that requires a boot partition (APM, GPT on some platforms), the installer as

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article <4e3d55fd.7090...@freebsd.org>, nwhiteh...@freebsd.org writes: >I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. Whenever you add a / >partition on a partitioning scheme that requires a boot partition (APM, >GPT on some platforms), the installer asks you if you want to add a boot >part

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/05/11 20:04, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am generally happy with it. The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was so used to the old behavior, but it reall

Re: New installation script

2011-08-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/05/11 17:35, Kevin Oberman wrote: I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am generally happy with it. The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was so used to the old behavior, but it really is more intuitive and I would not want to see the old

Re: New installation script

2011-08-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am > generally happy with it. > The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was > so used to the > old behavior, but it really is more intuitive and I would no

New installation script

2011-08-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am generally happy with it. The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was so used to the old behavior, but it really is more intuitive and I would not want to see the old behavior restored. I'll get used to it soo