Re: Unable to boot after update from within auto-admin

 
As another newbie attempting to get FreeBSD up and running, I agree somewhat with linuxblood over his concern that other newbies may hose their systems unknowingly.

I felt his initial complaint about auto-sdmin was unnecessarily flaming, but only out of line in its passion.

I know people make their own choices with FreeBSD, and that is part of its allure.

But I also understand that FreeBSD's gaining even wider acceptance requires looking beyond how well a contributed app or port is documented. And that documentation is clearly written so readers come away understanding what is going to happen, or can happen after selecting an installation option.

In order to familiarize myself completely with the installation process before installing FreeBSD, I have read through the handbook and appropriate manual pages. After I get the installation completed, I will probably join the documentation writers group and submit some revised pages for the installation handbook to make the process smoother and faster for anyone who wants to get started and learn FreeBSD.

I can see it's going to be a great experience given the support available and the levels of participation by users. Thanks to all.     On Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 05:29:45 AM PDT, linuxblood <[email protected]> wrote:  
 
 Anyhow, my main concern with this is that newbies like myself will pull down this program with 'desktop-installer', receive a notification popup, run auto-admin and may hose their system.

I don't know why desktop-installer pulls it in along with a popup generating package, but shouldn't there be a warning at least because we have a lot of newbies installing with desktop-installer for the first time and I'd hate for them to run into what I did unknowingly.

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