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From: hlu@retro.lanl.gov (Henry Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? ***
Date: 16 Oct 1996 19:14:26 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@george.lbl.gov) wrote:
: In article <52evk5$ckr@electra.saaf.se>,
: G|ran Hasse <gorhas@electra.saaf.se> wrote:
: >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).

: DOS is an operating system even though MS-DOS is a junk designed O.S. by
: whoever wrote it. The basic O.S. function is to load program for human being.

: Anyway, working with tons of O.S., from VMS, DOS, different types of UNIX,
: even linux, the FreeBSD is the one I take the least time to manage it.
: Approximately three-hour to complete system installation from knowing it.
: About three-day to master it.  How long does one take to buy a DOS and install
: it? (Not in an hour, unless someone sells DOS across the street from your home)

: Compare with learning linux, it is much easy for me. To install linux,
: it takes me about three-day to understand it, and about three-week barely
: to manage it (LILO ?). Some one may say that you have not use linux recently.
: I only compare them at the time when the FreeBSD 2.0.5 was delivered. :-)


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My experience is that freeBSD is way difficult and dangerous to install than
linux. I had no disaster with linux. However the first installation of
freeBSD got all MBR screwed up and I had to delete linux partition to
recover. freeBSD fdisk sucks and partition table is hard to understand by
newbie.