From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 21 22:50:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (fep2-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C78515109 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: from outpost.co.nz (b001-m004-p008.wgtn.clear.net.nz [203.167.240.200]) by fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.9) with ESMTP id RAA12683; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:45:46 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199904220545.RAA12683@fep2-orange.clear.net.nz> Received: (qmail 406 invoked from network); 22 Apr 1999 03:26:08 -0000 Received: from officedonkey.acme.gen.nz (HELO officedonkey) (192.168.1.3) by evil-smelling-bugger.acme.gen.nz with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 03:26:08 -0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Craig Harding" Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:25:44 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Another Successful Installation of FreeBSD Reply-To: crh@outpost.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan was just mentioning that people only notice when something goes wrong. So while I'm just completing the successful install of another brand new FreeBSD server for us, I thought I'd mention how superbly straightforward the installation procedure is. Unlike some here I don't have a room full of FreeBSD servers dating back 6 years, but I've had a single machine (which started FreeBSD life as a 386DX40 and is currently a P75) running FreeBSD since 2.0.5, and it's been uniformly a hassle-free existence. It's began life as a dialup UUCP server running INN in a very small way, for the last 16 months it's been my company's dialup PPP gateway and mail server, and now with (at last!) the imminent connection of a real Internet link I'm getting a couple more machines (nothing flash, one P166 and a 486DX4 100) to spread the load around so we can do a little web hosting for a few clients. As you can see, I don't do many installs, I subscribe to the CDs and typically install one version in three. But whenever I do, I'm always impressed by the ease of use of the install program. It just works, with a minimum of strife, and just enough prompting to remind me of the few tricky details I've forgotten since the last time. My hat is off to everyone involved. With FreeBSD I can run a lowcost fileserver for the office Macs and PCs, spend as little time as possible in maintenance/admin, and it just works. -- C. -- Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message