Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

On 24/12/06, Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> No, we just need better marketing, mostly.
>
> The OpenBSD installer is very nice and easy to use.
> There is one single part which I'm not satistfied with,
> that's the initial disk setup part. Unfortunately, there's
> quite a bit of work and testing to make this nicer.
>
> Your email also shows that you don't have any idea about
> the constraints we chose to work with and our design goals.
>
> Yep, the OpenBSD installer is not moron-friendly. So what ?
> If you know how to read, it doesn't get in the way, which is
> more than I could say for a lot of installers I played with.
>
> You want to write a moron-friendly installer ? go for it.
> hey, you're free to write some and ship your own OpenBSD
> installation system with it. That's what the BSD-licence is
> all about.
>
>
Hi

I have to agree with Marc, here, and (mostly) not with Nick, sorry - except
for the why-do-they-always-keep-changing-other-OSes'-installation-programs
part.

The OBSD disk partitioner is a /pain/. I honestly can't believe that if OBSD
is at all useful to more than 1% of the population, that more than 1% of the
/OBSD/ population find it necessary and helpful to have an installer that
/insists/ on the user calculating partitions by number of cylinders.

As for the FreeBSD installation, Nick made a factual error - the first time
I installed FBSD, which was around FBSD 4.x, I didn't even need to use
installation floppies then. Even if I had, the floppies are for people who
/can't/ boot from the CD.

Cheers,

Jeff