Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:30:01 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de> Cc: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com>, James Hicks <ytwok_karate@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd curiosity Message-ID: <20030110163001.GQ1196@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030110171328.F32936-100000@small.pukruppa.de> References: <20030110160739.GA12170@AndrewNg.com> <20030110171328.F32936-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
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# 520023893678-0001@t-online.de / 2003-01-10 17:23:29 +0000:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Andrew Y Ng wrote:
>
> > On 0, "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de> wrote:
> > > And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup
> > > FreeBSD on your machine and find out everything yourself.
> >
> > that's not really true, the RH installer is a lot easier to use for most ppl
> > than sysinstall. for some reason I prefer sysinstall though, probably because
> > I used to install NetBSD with their textbased installer and never had a
> > problem with it.
> You are right. When I started playing around with Linux (it was
> Slackware at that time) the installation menu looked like
> sysinstall. So it was easy to convert to FreeBSD.
> Though, sysinstall gives you the chance to start with a lean,
> minimal system and extend things the way you like.
I think the slackware installer still looks like that. at least in
8.0 it looked like a poor man's /stand/sysinstall.
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