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I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, The 'disk geometry' quote is from the Open BSD installation document. I'm not questioning the value of knowing what one is doing and making the most of the disk in terms of partitions and file systems. I'm suggesting that a path of installation that proceeds to a workable conclusion without such knowledge would be beneficial to the utility of an OS, and thus increase its marketability to the mass of non-technical users. The installation process for Open BSD is nearly there. Truly, the only thing I had to learn was how fdisk and disklabel work. The mini-kernel has the man pages for those on tap. Truthfully, after reading lots of posts regarding the setting up of Linux (various distributions), and the thread where the OP was trying to get FreeBSD up, I was flabbergasted at the ease of installation.
I have since installed it on a second disk added to my Windows machine. I then installed a multiboot program called GAG, which will boot up to 9 OSes. Now when I boot, I see a graphical screen (ugly, but what the hey) that tells me I can boot into XP by pressing the '1' key, or Open BSD by pressing the '2' key.
I have yet to make time for fetching ports and packages, but I'm looking forward to doing that and seeing how useful the system might be to Aunt Gertie and her friends.
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