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[Nothinman]

I wonder how many man pages are out of date...

I can't say that I've ever noticed one out of date.

I've never seen a decent automatic partition scheme

I didn't say the automatic stuff was great, but it works.

And Debian is a poor example of easy installers. I remember having to read the documentation to get it installed.

The old one was on par with the FreeBSD installer, the new one is much simpler.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I didn't say the automatic stuff was great, but it works.

It depends on your definition of works.

The old one was on par with the FreeBSD installer, the new one is much simpler.

Has there been an official release with a new installer already?

 

[Nothinman]

It depends on your definition of works.

System boots and runs is good enough for most people.

Has there been an official release with a new installer already?

No, they're aiming for the end of the month though.

 

[yelo333]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

It takes 2 minutes to properly partition a disk.

Yes, but I rebooted a few times, since I couldn't find the part in the install docs that tells you how to back up a step if you messed up

IIRC, What caught me was the idea that the OpenBSD partition/slice/whatever that actually got written to the MBR was just the first layer of partitioning. That in particular was what tripped me up so much. Of course, now that I've got that all figured out, I'm sure that it wouldn't take me more then a few minutes if I ever wanted to do it again.

Then again, I don't know why I am complaining about one step of one installer of one OS on one computer architecture...It really just doesn't matter

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: yelo333

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

It takes 2 minutes to properly partition a disk.

Yes, but I rebooted a few times, since I couldn't find the part in the install docs that tells you how to back up a step if you messed up

IIRC, What caught me was the idea that the OpenBSD partition/slice/whatever that actually got written to the MBR was just the first layer of partitioning. That in particular was what tripped me up so much. Of course, now that I've got that all figured out, I'm sure that it wouldn't take me more then a few minutes if I ever wanted to do it again.

Then again, I don't know why I am complaining about one step of one installer of one OS on one computer architecture...It really just doesn't matter

You don't go back a step. You ^C and re-run the install script.