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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs ....
Date: 26 Aug 1995 13:19:11 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41g4rf$3gh@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@sextans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>
>In addition, Linux can be installed off of floppies, a premounted
>directory, via NFS, or off of CD-ROM.
But not off tape or directly from an FTP site? Back to the
drawing boards... ;-)
>I personally did one of my Linux installs off of NFS. Whew, was that
>quick!
That's my preferred method here for FreeBSD deployment. I've got
all the relevant files on one of the SGI's which can act as a file
server for any computer on campus. If you want FreeBSD installed on
your machine, just call me over and I will generally have it up and
running within half an hour, it's that fast and easy.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org