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> -Peter
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> From: Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:48:23 -0800
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?
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On Thu, January 4, 2007 12:56 pm, Peter aka SweetPete wrote:
> I think that more specifically, I would like and lots of users in the
> *nix
> community probably would not mind, if sysinstall could handle
> installing to
> a partially used HDD. Can sysinstall do that? *naive looks*
>
> I have heard
an 2007 13:48:23 -0800
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?
..
Also, an interesting thing is that sysinstall required (at least in my
case) a clean filesystem / partition tables every time I tried to
install. Whenever I installed with a partially or complete filesy
On 1/4/07, Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sunnz wrote:
> Perhaps the stability of FBSD has led to the infrequent use of the
> installer for (re)installation. Think about it: if you are using the
> installer frequent enough to worry about how it look like, what are
> you doing? Reinst
Sunnz wrote:
Perhaps the stability of FBSD has led to the infrequent use of the
installer for (re)installation. Think about it: if you are using the
installer frequent enough to worry about how it look like, what are
you doing? Reinstalling your OS every several months?
Personally, I prefer t
2007/1/4, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
That's changing. MS is abandoning the 2000 installer and going strictly
GUI, come Vista.
- -Garrett
Well, that's not too surprising - they already have that Aero thing,
so they just as well do a fancy installer. But having a fancy GUI
installer shou
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Sunnz wrote:
> On the other hand, the FBSD installer is very Microsoft-ly, the WinXP
> installer doesn't have any fancy graphics at first boot, where you do
> the partition/fs-format stuff - it only display a nice Microsoft Ad
> thing when it starts
2007/1/4, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
So, you won't get much sympathy on weaknesses in the installer that
only gets used twice per year and especially to make it more (ugghh gaaag)
microslothty.
Perhaps the stability of FBSD has led to the infrequent use of the
installer for (re)in
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bobmc wrote:
>Bill Moran wrote:
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> In response to "Peter aka SweetPete" [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>
>
> Hello, I used to be on this mailing list several years ago, and have
> recently rejoined.
>
> [2]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
Bill Moran wrote:
In response to "Peter aka SweetPete" [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello, I used to be on this mailing list several years ago, and have
recently rejoined.
[2]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-sysinstall.h
tml
[3]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:42:35AM -0800, Peter aka SweetPete wrote:
> Hello, I used to be on this mailing list several years ago, and have
> recently rejoined.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-sysinstall.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h
I have made a post like this before, so I can hardly criticise you for
that, though my goal was more to try to consolidate a group to work on
the issue.
I'll say this, while the graphics aren't as pretty as those of many
Linux distros, the FreeBSD installer is a lot more user friendly and
workabl
As a recent BSD initiate, I can say, if you read all the details, and use
the defaults for everything (especially 'A' for label) (except most people
want X-user for the distribution), then everything works great.
Have you looked at PC-BSD? They seem to want to be more MS-like, but I
found they h
In response to "Peter aka SweetPete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello, I used to be on this mailing list several years ago, and have
> recently rejoined.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-sysinstall.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ins
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