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From: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 22:03:17 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In <KSTAILEY.95Aug16165754@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) writes:
[about NetBSD]
>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.

Exactly. Partitioning the second disk by hand was what took the
most time of my NetBSD install. The actual installation is trivial,
IMHO. Just have the file with the instructions printed out so you
can read it :-)

-Olaf.
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