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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!loewis From: loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v.Loewis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? *** Date: 12 Oct 1996 19:31:46 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53orn2$n5i@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <3248ab21.5993197@news.inetnow.net> <53ens0$lrs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <53g9fe$e8j@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cent.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <53g9fe$e8j@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>, Patrick Leung <pleung@cs.buffalo.edu> wrote: >And in answer to the original poster's questin, FreeBSD is supereasy to >install. ;-)) Not exactly my experience. The first time I considered FreeBSD, I found that it needs a primary partition, and I had only logical drives left. When I got a new hard drive, I reserved a primary partition for FreeBSD - just to find out that the ATAPI boot floppy would not recognize my CD-ROM drive. I later learned that you have to disable the third and fourth IDE hard disk (at least in 2.1.0), but this doesn't help if you don't have a running installation. So I ended up copying the CD-ROM onto the only FAT partition on a primary disk, which had little space left - I couldn't install the system in one run. I would not call this supereasy installation. Kind regards, Martin