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From: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (Andrew MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:26:40 +1000
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In article <40ujor$8f1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <40uan1$4tb@palmer.demon.co.uk>,
>Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Whilst working on the 2.0.5 install system with Jordan, et al, the fact
>>that a nice flashy, hold-your-hands install, might sell more CDROM's
>>didn't really occur to me. The fact that it may make FreeBSD more popular
>>IN GENERAL, did. The people who buy CDROM's from Walnut Creek are a fraction
>Everything Gary says (quite eloquently) here is true. And, in fact, we
>put far more significant amounts of work into the ftp part of the installation
>mechanism than we did for the CDROM install. Why would we do that if
>we only wanted to make a CDROM product? Installing over ftp is a much
>harder nut to crack (especially if you don't want any intermediate files
>to hit the disk, as we did) and I did, in fact, have to deal with significant
>grief from the WC folks who were wondering why it wasn't done yet
>and couldn't understand why I was putting in all that extra work after
>the CDROM portion of the installation already worked. I stood my ground
>because I see the CDROM installation as only PART of the installation.
>You can also install from tape, floppies, NFS and DOS. Does that sound
>like a CD-centric installation philosophy to you? Hardly!
The ftp over ppp install worked beautifully for me (2.1.0-950726-SNAP).
Thanks heaps for your efforts!
Just one little hiccup - when I went to initiate the ppp connect before
having committed the filesystem changes, an error was reported to the
effect "unable to create symbolic link - no free i-nodes" or similar. I
was able to commit the fs changes and then initiate the ppp connect.
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