Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:21:55 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <021001c25d6a$e1c07c00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <200209132054.56504.bts@babbleon.org> <00f801c25bc7$714238a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200209160557.g8G5vqL77543@tierzero.apana.org.au>
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Brian writes: > Total unadulterated crap on both counts. Windoze will > take anything up to about 55mins (depending on the > version and the hardware). Even an installation of NT on an old machine requires only about 20 minutes. The longest part of any Windows installation is the formatting of the disk, if formatting is required. > FBSD will take only a little less ... I seem to recall installing FreeBSD from a CD in only about 5-10 minutes. It was very fast. In any case, as you observe, installation is such a rare event that I don't consider it really important in evaluating one operating system versus another. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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