From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 3:21:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C4237B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 03:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B1643E6A for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 03:21:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g8GALsB25825 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:21:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <021001c25d6a$e1c07c00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <200209132054.56504.bts@babbleon.org> <00f801c25bc7$714238a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200209160557.g8G5vqL77543@tierzero.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:21:55 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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