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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!yfn.ysu.edu!ap713 From: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: users - not entirely clear on the concept Date: 11 Jun 1994 22:04:40 GMT Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2tdcdo$58u@news.ysu.edu> References: <Cr8EBv.BDM@hippo.ru.ac.za> <2t3g9a$s6h@menudo.uh.edu> <2t78ps$avo@rodan.uu.net> <2t7beb$p0n@menudo.uh.edu> <2tamoa$22 Reply-To: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) NNTP-Posting-Host: yfn2.ysu.edu In a previous article, csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) says: >Comments like this are always important. One of the things which >we are trying to do is to make the installation of FreeBSD easier, and >to improve the installtion scripts all the time. In 1.1R you will find >that Network interfaces, IP numbers, netmasks are all set up by the >installation script. (My only moan is that it doesn't set you up to >use a nameserver - and I am busy fixing that at the moment - 1.1.5 will >ask you for your nameserver.) >I don't think that any of us would like to see that installing FreeBSD >is something difficult, and we would like peoples comments, so that >we can improve the installation procedure. This is good. I have used three UNIX (free, of course) systems already, And I've noticed that: 386bsd 0.1 installed reasonably easily, and had enough to keep me interested for a while, Linux installed itself practically, but was rather a pain for me to work (read: play) with, and FreeBSD (read: God over all free UNIX systems :) required a fight to install, but was worth it. In the earlier install, are the default disk geometry parameters fixed? I've installed FreeBSD 1.0R on three systems, and the defaults were all wrong. I had to boot linux and use its fdisk program to find out what numbers to use. -Chris --