RE: Installation - More user friendly

From: JJB (Barbish3_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 03/08/04

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    To: "Bob Johnson" <bob89@bobj.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:28:03 -0500

    Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to
    be improved?

    Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what
    to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off,
    boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS
    type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall
    to set bios.

    That should be followed with option for standard basic install
    using whole hard drive from cdrom, and no questions from that point
    on. Behinds the scenes, fdisk deletes all hard drive partitions,
    disklable uses auto config, skip config is taken, distro of kernel
    source, no x-server, and no to all other questions, except set root
    password and timezone.

    Then for the original way, for each option question, give info about
    what this option enables and why one would enable it.
    Example

    enable NFS server (yes / NO) NFS stands for (Network File server)
    An advanced function where by this system you are installing will
    have an (Local Area Network) behind it and you want this system to
    share It's disk space with the other FBSD PC's on the lan. Answering
    yes will start the NFS server on this system and all the FBSD pc on
    the Lan must have the NFS client running to access and share the NFS
    servers disk space. Will not work with MS/windows PC on the Lan. Can
    be enabled later by rc.conf statements. Only answer yes if you know
    for certain you are going to use this function in the immediate
    future.

    This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each
    question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer
    with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in
    front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible
    handbook.

    That is what I see is missing from the sysinstall process and why it
    is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bob Johnson
    Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 PM
    To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    Cc: Donald Turnbull
    Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly

    On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:49 pm, Donald Turnbull <Donald Turnbull
    <dmturnbull@yahoo.com>> wrote:
    > Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more
    > user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for
    example
    > like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for
    technology
    > is to make people lives easier right?
    >

    It seems pretty friendly to me. It really helps to read the
    directions
    first, though.

    By "user friendly" do you mean "pretty", or do you have a specific
    complaint about some aspect that needs to be improved? Which
    SPECIFIC
    part of the install should be changed, and how should it be changed?

    - Bob

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