From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 18:27:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA28790 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28785 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA01331 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:26:49 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA26013; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:25:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199601030225.TAA26013@rover.village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: X for install Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hacker's list) In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 02 Jan 1996 17:42:54 PST Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:25:27 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : 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