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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!news.uoknor.edu!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!sun4nl!gategn.telecom.ptt.nl!hdxu03.telecom.ptt.nl!hdpd1232.telecom.ptt.nl!ben From: ben@hdpd1232.telecom.ptt.nl (Ben Suurmeijer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0a install: Yuck! Date: 22 Nov 1994 09:50:21 GMT Organization: PTT Telecom I&AT Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3asest$5pp@hdxu03.telecom.ptt.nl> References: <3adv8i$dqh@Germany.EU.net> <JKH.94Nov17074241@freefall.cdrom.com> <3aggef$br1@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <JKH.94Nov17185933@freefall.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hdpd1232.telecom.ptt.nl In article <JKH.94Nov17185933@freefall.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> wrote: >In article <3aggef$br1@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> scottl@ix.netcom.com (scott long) writes: > [skipped] > >1. We're talking about an ALPHA release here. I shouldn't need to explain > what the word "ALPHA" means in regard to a software release. Right on >2. If anything, the poster was complaining that the installation was > trying too hard to hold his hand (or other bodily part). I'd say > that this is entirely consistant with our "not just for experts" > philosophy. Ok, so we fully intend to have an "expert mode" as > well, but this was (again) ALPHA code. > > Jordan I installed 2.0-ALPHA a couple of days ago. I think the menu's are a great improvemed for none experts. The machine is running some time now, and I had no problems (it's a compaq 386s/20 with 8Mb Memory and 121 Mb Harddisk). I've some remarks and suggestions: - May be there should be a message 'wait until ready' while doing newfs and so on. (I missed the part of booting from and the cpio-floppy) - I missed the extract.sh with the bindist, so I did the extracting by hand. May be extract.sh should be in bindist-dir on the ftp-site - When booting, the machine is looking for /386bsd but it should look for /kernel, or am I doing something wrong? I'm planning to run 2.0 on my own machine on short notice (486/66 Dell), and I think it's great. Ben -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Suurmeijer | Telephone : +31 50 851041 PTT Telecom B.V. | Telefax : +31 50 855310 I&AT | E-mail : B.Suurmeijer@telecom.ptt.nl P.O. Box 188 | DISCLAIMER: This Statement is not an official NL-9700 AD Groningen | statement from, nor does it represent an The Netherlands | official position of, PTT Telecom B.V. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------