Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:08:51 -0700 From: Travis Cole <tcole@balsam.methow.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux install Message-ID: <19990907000851.B4299@wcug.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990906224653.B18294@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:46:53PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909061702460.40981-100000@picnic.mat.net> <19990906224653.B18294@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:46:53PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Anyway, the install was terrible. Loads of stuff I had *no* interest > in selected by default (like KDE and loads of other crappy window > managers), which FreeBSD quite rightly puts in ports. Oh, it refused to > have a swap partition bigger than 128MB as well, for some reason. Other 128MB is actualy the max size for a swap partition with the 2.0.x Linux kernels. Yes, very lame. At least they fixed it in 2.2.x > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk -- --Travis When it comes to violence, morality and the young, we're the Idiot Nation, the laughingstock not only of the civilized world but of the highly-wired generation of kids we're supposedly trying to protect. Jon Katz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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