From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 8 10:00:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA07984 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA07890 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29243; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:59:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd029178; Thu Jan 8 10:59:04 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA12518; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:58:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801081758.KAA12518@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: X based Free installation To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:58:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, perlsta@sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, capriotti@geocities.com In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Jan 7, 98 07:09:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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.