On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:55 AM, <"Thomas Mueller <mueller6727"@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Some more ideas on the new bsdinstaller cross my mind. > > Since the way the bsdinstaller would make partitions is unpredictable, at > least to the uninitiated, and in all likelihood at variance with how much > space the user wants to allocate, it might be better to offer a roadmap to > help guide the user to allocating space for FreeBSD using gpart or Rod > Smith's gdisk. > > Also, I can't see the function of the 64 KB boot partition with no file > system, which does not boot for me, though I can boot the main partition > using grub2 from the System Rescue CD (http://sysresccd.org/). > > Another concern is updating to the next beta (BETA3?) without trashing the > installed application software (from ports). So far, bsdinstaller hasn't > offered any possibility of upgrading an existing installation. I don't think > a user wants to rebuild all ports for every new beta or release candidate. > This also concerns me. I wanted to ask, if one updates 9.0-BETA 2 through ports, if it was the same as a possible BETA-3? and the big question, if updating, does one have to build all the ports? or when one updates BETA-2, do we really have BETA-3 already?
What I would question, is that the choices are offered, but one has to use (+) or (-) keys instead of the up arrow/down arrow to select the packages. When I installed it on an amd64 bit machine, I wanted to select src/ and kernel + base, but I did not know how to change, later I found out that + or - keys would change the selections, I pressed enter and then I could not go back to previous screen. With sysinstall I knew how to go back and forth between the screens, but with bsdinstall it is completely revamped. > > Tom Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
