Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:58:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, perlsta@sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, capriotti@geocities.com Subject: Re: X based Free installation Message-ID: <199801081758.KAA12518@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980107190624.26495E-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom" at Jan 7, 98 07:09:21 pm
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> > Actually, a commercial X server vendor volunteered a free 640x480 > > X server for FreeBSD to use in this kind of install about a year > > (maybe more?) ago, and was flatly turned down. > > Really? I don't recall that. I remember that no one had a graphical > install tool, and running sysinstall in a window would be cheesy :). Yes, really. 8-). > Also, XFree has a generic 640x480 server too. But it's large, and works on less hardware than the free 640x480 would have (EGA, Hercules, in addition to VGA). > > In any case, as I pointed out in my last message of this subject, > > you can get the same benefits without X -- my Windows 3.1 installer > > example still stands, I think. > > sysinstall bites, but unless someone rewrites it, not much will change. > As far as I know, Jordon has been talking about this for a while... My point was not that the current install bites; it's that for less work than an X install, you can probably have the benefits that people associate with graphical installs. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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