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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Very easy to install!
Date: 31 Aug 1995 09:35:38 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <421nuq$nvo@gol1.gol.com>, MICHAEL <michael@gnj.or.jp> wrote:
>
>I still don't know if FreeBSD is more stable than Linux, but I'll say
>this much: FreeBSD is 10 million times easier to install than Linux was!
Hmmmm... I would say FreeBSD is 10 million times more stable that
Linux, and probably just as easy to install. ;-)
>The FreeBSD installer automates quite a lot: the partitioning and
>formatting, setting up the X configuration file and so on.
sysinstall in 2.0.5 is *much* improved from 2.0, with kudos to
Jordan et al. for sweating over this one. :)
>The Linux setup seems to handle setting up of the Ethernet card more
>automatically
>though...I still haven't figured out where that setup is.
All my installations were done via NFS, and the installer will ask
you for your NIC, IP address, hostname, gateway, etc. and save that
stuff in your /etc/sysconfig. Just make sure your Ethernet card is
using the same IRQ the kernel thinks it is using.
>o The partition feature in Install is a bit cryptic. The help for
>partition doesn't explain what the size units are, nor does it
>say that in the next step sub-partitions will be made for swap
>space, etc.
Adding new disks or changing partition tables in general needs to
be improved in FreeBSD.
>o As someone mentioned elsewhere, the mouse device name does not
>seem to be mentioned anywhere (for X configuration).
Most of the time you can use something like /dev/cuaa0 for a COM1
serial mouse, but some people have a PS/2-style mouse and that uses
/dev/psm0. The X documentation could be a little clearer on that
(maybe contact David Dawes <dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au>, he works on
the FreeBSD release of XFree86).
>o The "boot from DOS" feature does not seem to work -- at least for
>me. It keeps booting DOS again, as opposed to booting FreeBSD. However
>it was quite easy to make a bootable floppy that worked the first
>time (as opposed to trying half-a-dozen variations of boot floppies
>in Linux).
Yep, one great thing about FreeBSD: a single boot floppy! No
need to hunt down one that has network drivers, but no SCSI drivers,
or one with IDE+SCSI but no SLIP or PPP support, or one that has
everything in it, but conflicts so horribly with itself you can't get
it to boot. ;-)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org