Re: Which BSD?

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 11/06/03

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    Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 19:49:36 +0000 (UTC)

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    <slrnbql2ii.44l.denshimeiru-sapmctacher@message-id.durchnull.ath.cx>,
    Rudolf Polzer wrote:
    > Scripsit ille »David Douthitt« <ssrat@mailbag.com>:
    >> Note that none of the BSDs offer a slick user-friendly graphical
    >> "geewhiz" installation. However, if you can install Slackware or
    >> Gentoo you can certainly install any of the BSDs.
    >
    > BTW, is there a Gentoo-like (Any)BSD install process?

    I don't know that. I do know that the FreeBSD installer works very
    well indeed. The NetBSD installer looks a bit less spiffy (at least when
    I last looked at it) but it works equally well.

    As do the ports/pkgsrc systems on both.

    > The only thing I
    > liked about sysinstall from FreeBSD was the partitioner, the rest was a
    > PITA. Just because the mirror I chose was missing the package index
    > file, it tried over twenty times to download that index file: five times
    > for each package it wanted to install. If I had pressed ^C, I'd probably
    > have had to start over.

    But you didn't try, did you?

    I was helping someone netinstall FreeBSD 4.9 this week and it bombed
    halfway. In hindsight due to a loose cable. Luckily it already had a
    bootable kernel and /stand/sysinstall installed. So, what to do?
    Launch /stand/sysinstall and just re-request installing the binary
    distribution. After that, continue as usual.

    There is no difference in the resulting system when installing only base,
    rebooting into installed system and continue configuring through sysinstall
    compared to trying to do it in one shot. It's just harder to fsck up.

    And that, netinstalling 4.9, off a 4.7 install cdrom.

    > After a long long time, I was finally able to choose another mirror. But
    > such installers suck. Gentoo's installer is /bin/sh - it at least does
    > what I want it to do.

    *shrug* Try ``accidentally'' choosing a mirror that just happens to be
    down with gentoo and see if you still like it that much. How well can
    you recover from a half-way installed system? 

    -- 
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