On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:55 AM, <"Thomas Mueller <mueller6727"_at_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, AntonioReceived on Sun Sep 18 2011 - 11:53:33 UTC
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