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Date:      Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:25:27 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hacker's list)
Subject:   Re: X for install 
Message-ID:  <199601030225.TAA26013@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 02 Jan 1996 17:42:54 PST

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: Hey, have any of you ever installed NT 3.51 Workstation?  It's sick
: how badly it shows us up.  Mind you, when it fails it fails rather
: spectacularly (just try installing on a P54NP4 board with an older
: BIOS revision - NT install blows up and you're left with *zero* clue
: as to why or what to do next) but when it works, it works really well.

That's right!  I want to be able to get FreeBSD to that point.  I'm
*NOT* saying you must use it.  I'm saying you can.  Those that don't
want to dl the X server to do the install don't have to!  If you have
a CD player and all of this is on CD (or, say, a ZIP drive), then why
not?

: Any black magicians out there interested
: in starting a `FreeBSD Detect 1.0' project? :-)

*SHUDDER*.  The only person that I know in town that knows how to do
this did a lot for Linux.  He now jumps out of perfectly good
airplanes with parachutes purchased from "The Uninsured Parachute
Packaging Company of Bangor Maine".

: I can say one thing with absolute authority: The current "hardware
: detection" scheme in sysinstall is utterly bogus, hateful and
: genuinely evil.

Agreed.  I'm more of a GUI person myself. :-(.

However, I like the way that you think....

Warner



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