From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 7 0: 9: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from balsam.methow.com (balsam.methow.com [206.107.156.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66F9A1559D for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:08:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcole@balsam.methow.com) Received: (qmail 4492 invoked by uid 535); 7 Sep 1999 07:08:51 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:08:51 -0700 From: Travis Cole To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux install Message-ID: <19990907000851.B4299@wcug.wwu.edu> References: <19990906224653.B18294@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990906224653.B18294@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:46:53PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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