Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at puchar.net
Thu Apr 16 15:48:45 UTC 2020


>> Actually it would be  better to be no installer at all, but instalation
>> instructions.
>
> I remember FreeBSD 1.1 install instructions fondly.
>
can see first page only.

> https://twitter.com/encthenet/status/816072254354178048
>
my installation:

1) run bootable FreeBSD from anything (i usually use pendrive)
2) create partitions, install boot blocks
3) newfs partition, mount
4) unpack few .tar.gz - i have them included in bootable media.
5) done.



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