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Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any
NIC's I have had...

James

On Sun, 27 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 27 May 2001, Stuart Duckworth wrote:
> 
> > On 25 May 01, at 17:23, Dragon Singer wrote:
> > 
> > > 	I'm really new to FreeBSD, so new in fact that I haven't had the courage 
> > > to try and install it yet.  
> > 
> > I tried installing Linux after several successfull FreeBSD installs.  I 
> > found FreeBSD easier and safer to install.  The Linux distribution I 
> > tried was RedHat and despite me clearly not wanting it to write to 
> > my primary drive, it did so anyway and trashed the partition table.  I 
> > shall stick with FreeBSD in future.
> 
> RedHat is difficult, since it tries to be so simple :) I use Slackware a
> lot on my laptop systems since I haven't been able to get FreeBSD to
> install on any of them due to PCMCIA NICs and cdroms. Slackware is a great
> distribution if you know what you're doing. While it isn't as good as
> FreeBSD (in my opinion) it certainly is miles better than, for example,
> RedHat and SuSE.
> 
> -Fredrik
> 
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