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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: 25 Aug 1995 07:16:37 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: gendalia@menelos.cs.iastate.edu's message of 23 Aug 1995 02:38:57 GMT
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In article <41e4c1$1u6@news.iastate.edu> gendalia@menelos.cs.iastate.edu (Tracy J. Di Marco) writes:
Olaf Seibert <rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl> wrote:
}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 :-)
Hmm... I didn't want to partition the second disk by hand, so I edited
the install script to just do disklabeling. :)
Oh sure. There's one in every crowd. It must be because she's not a
guy...
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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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