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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: 386BSD v. Linux
Message-ID: <1993Mar5.003304.695@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 00:33:04 GMT
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In article <11567@tivoli.UUCP> steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz) writes:
>I tried both. I know this:
>
> - BSD's installation procedures suck. (I could rattle off about
> a dozen reasons why, but I'll just rip off the top 3: The
> installation program gets deleted after you install (so you
> can't incrementally install the packages); The documentation
> sucks (the install notes contain reams & reams of junk not
> relevant to the installation process, so if you have to refer
> back to the notes, you have to sift through a ton of junk.
> Further, there's no notes on exactly what's in all the
> assorted packages.); and the kernels on Agate don't work
> reliably (or at least they don't work on my machine and
> some other folks have reported the same results.)
WHile most of your points are valid, I would like to disagree with
this one.
I found the INSTALL.NOTES to be quite good, and after having read
them through, I found myself ready to install the OS. There was one problem
with my PC, but after I got a fixed boot floppy, everything worked great.
I have been having problems with X, but that's largely because I am
using XBSD8514, and have been unable to get any help on it at all.
ToodlepiP!
Marc 'em.
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