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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 22 Aug 1995 05:41:01 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl's message of 18 Aug 1995 22:03:17 GMT
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In article <4132n5$8et@wn1.sci.kun.nl> rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) writes:
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 :-)
Hey, this is the best part! This is what makes a man a man! What
puts hair on your chest! Getting dirt under your fingernails and
permanent grease stains on your hands! Custom-building the layout of
your system from the very lowest level! Laying out your partitions
track by track! Building the system from the ground up from the
crudest tools, just so you can reboot it and do another round with
only slightly less crude tools! Breathe deeply as you bask in the raw
powerful maleness of it all! God, I love it!
But, I guess it's a Unix-purist thing. A BSD-purist thing. A NetBSD
thing. You wouldn't understand.
;-)
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, PC532,
DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), DEC/AXP (Alpha)
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX and others...
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