FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 install experience

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I took careful notes on my first bsdinstaller experience using FreeBSD 
9.1-RC3 i386.

I wanted to report one problem and some minor issues. I was not able to 
find via the gnats search web interface. (Not very intuitive.)

1) The "final configuration" menu to Services (daemons) choice. Then 
when enter at that menu it goes to the dumpdev question again. (Already 
happened ... and appears to happen every time. Why keep asking about 
dumpdev?)

2) Reboot choice is default at end. But reboots so fast on some machine, 
not enough time to change boot to boot from install location so boots 
install media again. Maybe should simply have a halt option or a delay 
that reminds about installer media.

3) Why go to shell as default choice at end?  Looks like goal of 
bsdinstaller was to be quick and make best choices for installer 
automatically, so defaulting to shell is different than this.

(Not a installer issue, but after boot, my hostname was "unqualified" so 
sm-mta spent a few minutes before it gave up so hanging boot between ssh 
and cron start up for a few minutes. Not important, but maybe should 
daemonize and do this initial delay behind the scenes since there is 
nothing to do about it at that time anyways.)

Overall I liked using the bsdinstaller. (I have used sysinstall hundreds 
of times ... including teaching several labs with 10+ students all 
running it as same time.)

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