OT: Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

[Sten Daniel Soersdal]

John Walthall wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:10:06AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> As someone who has had to show many people "how" to use the FreeBSD
>> installer, I can confirm what Chris is referring to.
>>
>> Here's some of the generic end-user complaints I've heard (and some
>> of which I have);
> [...]
> 
> And let's not forget the infamous geometry bug!  For me, at least sysinstall has always, 100% of the time, incorrectly detected my disc geometry.
> 
> Sysinstall is adequate, nothing more, nothing less. I don't mean though, to belittle the efforts of the developers; these days people are going to expect it to be polished on the order of YaST, which is ridiculous. Sysinstall is functional.
> 
> Although irritated, variously, by every one of these issues, I am most concerned about the geometry bug, it looks lackadaisical.
> 
> It is worth noting however, that of all the BSD's I have tried, FreeBSD has the best installer. NetBSD's installer isn't half bad, but doesn't have the scope of sysinstall, and is much less valuable as a configuration tool. OpenBSD's installer is Spartan; like the rest of OpenBSD, only more-so. I should not like ever to use OpenBSD's nightmarish installer again.
> 
> If people have trouble with sysinstall-the-configuration-tool, perhaps they might examine sysutils/webmin?
> 

Off topic!
What can i do to see the correct geometry on my disks??

-- 
Sten Daniel Soersdal