Subject: Re: bitch bitch bitch was RE: KA6x0 support
To: Oscar Oberg <Oscar.Oberg@abc.se>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/24/1998 09:23:22
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Oscar Oberg wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > If you have a PC around you should try booting a NetBSD 1.3.2
> > boot floppy to see the interface (you can easily bail before it
> > actually starts doing anything :)
>
> I hope it isn't like the 1.3 i386 install, which I had an unfortunate
> encounter with the other week. I'm not gonna pull a sokolov and complain
> without specifying what I'm complaining about, so here are the complaints:
>
sysinst may not be perfect, but for a lot of users it makes
installing NetBSD much easier. Combine that with support for
different languages and a common interface across ports and
its definitely a good way to go...
In tru NetBSD tradition its problems tend to affect all ports -
fixing them in one will also help the others.
> a) Tricky to install on multiple disks (my / disk was 80, the /usr 200,
> but the install program is geared toward a one-disk-multiple-partitions
> install as far as I could tell. I did finally succeed, but took alot
> longer than it should've
>
That is definitely something that should be fixed - particularly
for those machines (such as vax) that tend to have smaller disks.
Can you file a PR on it?
> b) Default behaviour for any error was to start over from the beginning
>
What do you define as an error here?
> c) Problems with FTP install. It also didn't produce any error messages to
> help debug the problem IIRC.
>
I believe this has already been raised - I don't know if anyone
has fixed it yet...
> If these things were fixed, however, it would be a great install process.
>
I believe that is the intended plan :)
David/absolute
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde