At 15:14 10/12/2004, Newton wrote: >Dear Friends : I'm a Linux user since 1,999 and I'm really interested in >start FreeBSD. OK, it's a new system, different versions and so on. My >experience with computers started with Basic, after MS-DOS, Windows and >Linux. When I tried Linux, 5 years-ago, partitions, kde, window maker >and many of them, were only words. My first fear, was erase my HD. I did >it many times, but I knew how to start again or recover. I'm writing >these things, cause in these years using Linux, I saw a big evolution , >specially the installer. Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware and >another, made a goob job and you can do it , almost without problems. >But, when I tried FreeBSD installer, I remembered Debian, the worst >installer ! Probably another distributions, like Knoppix, Kurumin , >Gnoppix to name a few, trying to make the life user easiest ! My first >experience with FreeBSD, was 5.0, with a PC Master, brazilian magazine. >After many tries, a XFree86 error, when I typed startx, disappointed me >again and, I forgot it... On the last month, I downloaded the 2 CDs, >5.2.1, and, the same installer, errors, infinite loops... very >disappointing ! I tried many lists, and with some support,to resolve or >not, the problems. Again, I format my system and, here I am, with >Windows (mainly for games and a problematic usb scanner) and Linux. I >need a more stable system. Many people talked me very good about >FreeBSD. For me, until now , the biggest deception ! Please, I don't >know the FreeBSD objectives, but if you would like that more and more >people can use it, CHANGE this installer. Confuse , in one word ! >Disappointing ! I tried standard, express, custom , all packages, >minimum, all kind of ways... I can't understand a looped install. Almost >2 hours after, an error... My video card is recognized , but when you >did post-install, not ! You tried many XFrre86 configs and not.... When >something happens and finally you can start KDE or GNOME or another, >DHCP don't run and so on. Please change this installer and trying to >better hardware and network configuration ! Until this, I'll never tried >FreeBSD again ! Sincerely, Newton - Curitiba - Brazil
Hi Newton, Definitely the installer (sysinstall) needs to made more user friendly. Since FreeBSD is a volunteer project, anyone can work on a new 'user-friendly' version. How 'bout you? ;^) I had trouble at first installing FreeBSD, but once I put together a procedure list for myself, it doesn't take much time at all: http://www.US-Webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ I recommend you start from 'scratch' and install it on a blank hard drive. Good luck! Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
