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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!news.kth.se!tybalt.admin.kth.se!merope.saaf.se!electra.saaf.se!not-for-mail From: gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? *** Date: 27 Sep 1996 00:20:53 +0200 Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening Lines: 34 Message-ID: <52evk5$ckr@electra.saaf.se> References: <3248ab21.5993197@news.inetnow.net> <52bss1$2gg@orion.cybercom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: electra.saaf.se In article <52bss1$2gg@orion.cybercom.net>, The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> wrote: >Philip Chong (pchong@inetnow.net) wrote: >: Is FreeBSD easy to install? >: I have a typical Dell XPS P-100. >: It is a EIDE system with a NEC CD-ROM and awe-32 and #9 video card. > >I think FreeBSD is the most difficult OS installation I've ever done. >Not that its impossible or anything, but the installer will only go >so far with getting your system configured. Experience with Unix and >IBM-compatible PCs will come in handy here. Then you have not been around for a long time. If you have tried to install SCO and InteractiveUnix some years ago - then you could talk about difficult. (Note: DOS and Windows is not an operating systems - only program loaders. They are easy to install but they dont take control over hardware and are therefor easy). >There have been some reports of problems with IDE CD-ROMs, however. >If your CD-ROM is not recognized by FreeBSD, you can install from >a hard disk partition. > >K.S. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Göran Hasse gh@raditex.se Tel: +46 8 7730148 Raditex AB http://www.raditex.se Fax: +46 8 7730902 Box 38 Minicall: 0740-167443 138 21 ÄLTA, SWEDEN