Installation Ease

[Michael Rothenberg]

As a newbie I felt that the installation was not so bad. It is not as nice
as windows. Sorry, but hey, I'd rather you put your time into the OS then
the install anyway. Worst part was trying to figure out which netcard
driver to keep when my specific 3com was not listed and the xfree stuff. I
dont know if I got the right net driver yet either. We'll see shortly.
After that the XFree install section needs some work. It is hard to figure
out if you need the server or some other combination. In the end I just
installed everything figureing that I can remove it later if I have too. It
was confusing if the version numbers are shown. At least to a windoze user
because versions never really make sence to them.

Perhaps an option to just install the minimum needed to get a multi-user
login without the net support or xfree would be best. This would put all
the docs on with an additional readme for istalling the other main parts to
the system: most ports,net stuff and xfree. Then us newbies can play with a
base system before going on to the next step: connection to the net or
xfree cfg.

As a newbie I think thats what I ended up with on my machine... hehehe and
thats what I was going for. Next stop, XFree cfging! Woo hoo!

-m

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[J McKitrick]

Interestingly, like i said, only one installation ever got my XF86
settings right the first time around.... a young linux upstart called
turbolinux. It got everything right first time around, so i saved the
file, and it only needed minor editing for other OS's and distros.

-jm

[Giorgos Keramidas]

J McKitrick <j...@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> writes:

> Interestingly, like i said, only one installation ever got my XF86
> settings right the first time around.... a young linux upstart called
> turbolinux. It got everything right first time around, so i saved the
> file, and it only needed minor editing for other OS's and distros.

That's funny...

I used XF86Setup with the basic XF86_VGA16 and XF86_SVGA servers already
installed as binaries.

It has worked remarkably well for me back when I was using Linux.
It worked in the same manner now that I am using FreeBSD.

And backups were not an option, since I moved to FreeBSD after Linux
managed to fsck my disk partitions to oblivion =P

--
Giorgos Keramidas, <kera...@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]