John Walthall wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:10:06AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
As someone who has had to show many people "how" to use the FreeBSD
installer, I can confirm what Chris is referring to.
Here's some of the generic end-user complaints I've heard (and some
of which I have);
[...]
And let's not forget the infamous geometry bug! For me, at least sysinstall
has always, 100% of the time, incorrectly detected my disc geometry.
Sysinstall is adequate, nothing more, nothing less. I don't mean though, to
belittle the efforts of the developers; these days people are going to expect
it to be polished on the order of YaST, which is ridiculous. Sysinstall is
functional.
Although irritated, variously, by every one of these issues, I am most
concerned about the geometry bug, it looks lackadaisical.
It is worth noting however, that of all the BSD's I have tried, FreeBSD has the
best installer. NetBSD's installer isn't half bad, but doesn't have the scope
of sysinstall, and is much less valuable as a configuration tool. OpenBSD's
installer is Spartan; like the rest of OpenBSD, only more-so. I should not like
ever to use OpenBSD's nightmarish installer again.
If people have trouble with sysinstall-the-configuration-tool, perhaps they
might examine sysutils/webmin?
Off topic!
What can i do to see the correct geometry on my disks??
--
Sten Daniel Soersdal
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