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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Impression
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 24 Dec 1995 22:04:23 -0800
Organization: By the Holy Claws of Klortho the Magnificent, this IS a fine morning!
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References: <4a6vve$l46@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu> <4bekgn$go9@news1.wing.net> <4bh5vi$naq@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4bk0t7$nnq@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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Summary: Installation: not great, but getting there.
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:14526 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11395
In article <4bk0t7$nnq@mark.ucdavis.edu>,
David E. O'Brien <obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
>: 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.
>
>Sorry to bust your chops ;-). Actually it is totally orthoginal, not a
>special case for the root floppy. I mean if you are installing from
>floppies, then floppies are your installation medium, and behold that's
>where your "root" is comming from. :-)))
>
>See, isn't the FreeBSD install logical and great? I think so, gets easier
>and better with each version
Well, yes, but considering what it started with it's not saying
very much :-(
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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