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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: 22 Aug 1995 13:36:52 GMT
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In article <MICHAELV.95Aug21224101@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) 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!
Oh stop, I'm getting moist!
Anyhow, I built "owl.dol-esa.gov" by sticking a VL-IDE controller and
1GB IDE HD into my SCSI system at home and built the disk that way.
Are my knuckles hairy enough yet?
BTW "owl" just showed up on my desk when I went to work at the DOL
(darn, I wanted a real workstation like other 25 or so that have
passed through my various consulting/admin jobs.) What a PC-droid
place to work, but the location is great, I can walk to the "one true
Mall" to soak up kulcha any time the humidity drops below 90% which
means not during the summer.
~Ken