Opened 9 months ago
Closed 9 months ago
#654 closed System Enhancement (fixed)
PC-BSD 9.0 installer doesn't explain anything about FreeBSD slices
| Reported by: | Boug | Owned by: | kris |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Installer | Version: | 9.0-RELEASE |
| Keywords: | explaination slices | Cc: | trac-bugs@… |
Description
PC-BSD was created to allow non-expert users to easily install and use an alternative system to Linux, Windows or Mac OSX. And as this, it has to explain it's particularities to non-expert people, especially about it's partitioning way.
So, it would be nice for new and inexperienced users that the PC-BSD installer explains briefly how PC-BSD is partitioned : it might briefly explain the FreeBSD slices and that the root partition is in fact a part of a slice which itself has to be a primary partition created from an ext2-3-4, FAT, NTFS or any other file system for the system to be installed!
Imagine you are a pure FreeBSD newbie : how would you know that? The most of the new PC-BSD users come from the Linux world, and even me, who was a very experienced Linux user, I was lost with the slices partitioning system with no explaination at the beginning.
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 9 months ago by joshms
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
We have this all very well documented in the PC-BSD handbook. We don't want to put all this information into the installer and clutter it up. Also the new installer is a littler smarter about how it handles partitions, so you should see some significant improvement.
http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Partitioning_the_Hard_Drive