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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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