At 3:06 AM -0800 3/8/00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > For complete newbies, having "two formatting menus" seems weird
> > too, and may be confusing. (I'm quoting one of my housemates).
>
>For complete newbies, you really only want to ask one question up-front:
>
> "Do you want to use all available disk space for FreeBSD?"
>
>If the answer is yes, you go do the rest on their behalf without
>asking anything more than, perhaps, what kind of installation they
>want (desktop, server, etc). If the answer is no, then you get into
>the more detailed questions.
I think that gets back to the original observation though. If you
do have super-simple option for newbies (which sounds like a good
idea to me), then that option should be picking better sizes for
partitions than the current default sizes.
The first time I installed freebsd, I picked numbers that were
a little larger than the defaults for '/' and '/var', and still
found myself needing to redo the entire installation in less
than a week because /var was too small. That was fine enough
for me, as I just figured it as a learning experience and went
ahead and redid everything. Newbies might not like learning
experiences quite that much. (and actually, every time I do a
new install I keep bumping up the size a bit more).
Or are you saying that the newbie option would just use the
entire disk as one partition (the way that MacOS 10 server
does...)? (well, I guess it'd have to be two partitions, with
one of them being for swap space...).
(I don't think this is a crisis or anything that needs to change
right this second, but assuming the installation is going to stick
with multiple partitions, then I do think that the default sizes
for some of these partitions should be larger).
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