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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news2.EUnet.fr!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 16 Aug 1995 20:57:54 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 11 Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.95Aug16165754@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rpge$fta@orion.cc.andrews.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: gillham@andrews.edu's message of 16 Aug 1995 03:43:10 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:699 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4200 In article <40rpge$fta@orion.cc.andrews.edu> gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) writes: Hmm, I would tend to agree with you that the NetBSD install is not the greatest for a novice, but it does work. The biggest problem with the install script is that it assumes you have one disk drive, not two or more. It therefor does not know how to put say, root on the first drive and /usr on the second one. ~Ken