Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:10:54 +0000 From: Michael Doyle <relyod@indigo.ie> To: Scott Myron <zamy27@hsonline.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing Freebsd Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980211161054.0090cb90@pop.indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: <34E13CDF.269ABDC1@hsonline.net>
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At 07:53 11/02/1998 +0200, you wrote: >ok, now, I've heard that installing FreeBSD is difficult and a pain in >the rear. Is this true? Is installing FreeBSD hard? Or is it pretty >easy? as in a click of a few buttons and there it is... also they say >"setting it up" is a pain. So once I have it installed, is it pretty >easy to get working? or will I have to work a little? don't forget, I've >got all of the time in the world. but I just want to know if I have a >HUGE challenge in front of me, or if it won't be that bad. and to help >you answer, I'm getting FreeBSD v 2.2.5 on cd's. so you know I'm not >installing it off of the net or anything... thanks again. Well, As someone who'd been a user of, (as opposed to an administrator of) various flavours of UNIX, I purchased and installed the Walnut Creek release 2.2.5 of Free BSD It cost $35, and I got the server up and configured to do what I needed over about 5 working days (it is now domain-email and web proxy server for my LAN - talking to ISP via dial-up modem) If I needed to configure another PC to do the same in a similar circumstance I could probably re-do everything in an afternoon. For comparison, software to do the same for WinNT would probably cost in excess of $2000 and could be installed and configured in a couple of hours. :-) You pay your $$ and take a chance :-) I'm happy with FreeBSD, especially given the response that I had to the more arcane questions when I asked them on this list. ;-) <><=====================================================><> Michael Doyle phone: +353-1-661-0588 Network Administrator http://indigo.ie/~coopnth/ Co-Operation North E-mail: relyod@co-operation-north.ie (0ffice) relyod@indigo.ie (Personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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