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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: 26 May 1996 21:50:58 GMT
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root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) wrote:

>   It takes me about 1Hr
> at most to install a FreeBSD system from scratch (I usually make partitioning
> errors, so it takes me longer than some people, others might take a few hours
> if there are unexpected hardware configuration issues.)

Ha!, ``dangerously dedicated'' mode is your friend, John!  Together
with the ``A)automagic'' in the label editor, sysinstall does
everything for you then, and all your geometry hassles should go away
since the bootstrap starts at sector 0.

:-)

-- 
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. ;-)