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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Impression
Date: 23 Dec 1995 15:07:30 GMT
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pgf@american.com (Paul G. Fox) writes:

> : The FreeBSD install procedure is quite impressive.  Dynamic driver
> : configuration, installation through an ftp server etc, all in a single
> : floppy.  I wish I can do that with Linux.  
> single floppy?  i think you mean two...  one boot, one root.

One boot, one fixit. :-)

Acutally, the ``root floppy'' is just only a floppy when you're doing
a floppy-only installation.  In all other cases, it's being retrieved
from the installation medium automagically.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)