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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!sci.kun.nl!severus.mbfys.kun.nl!rhialto 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 Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4132n5$8et@wn1.sci.kun.nl> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rpge$fta@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <KSTAILEY.95Aug16165754@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: severus.mbfys.kun.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:790 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4717 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. -- ___ Copyright 1995 Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert. All Rights Reserved. \X/ You are not allowed to read this using any kind of Micro$oft product.