From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 8 10:55:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA15211 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:55:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA15179 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:54:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02067; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:54:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd002047; Thu Jan 8 11:54:44 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA17141; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:54:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801081854.LAA17141@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: X based Free installation To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:54:41 +0000 (GMT) Cc: capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Jan 7, 98 06:59:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > GUI is doable, you just can't do it during the install. It is chicken > and egg problem. You can't get a nice X display, until you've installed > an X server for your video card, and lots of support software. Don't say "can't" here. Microsoft does it. They use a dumb VGA driver, and install accelerated ones that are card specific later. > X is large. It wouldn't fit on single disk. CD ROM would work (have a > fully installed X on CD with support for all different video adapters. > But what about non-CDROM installs? FTP installs are very popular. You could always make them NFS installs instead of FTP, and have the distribution sites allow anonymous NFS. Many of the big archives allow anonymous NFS already. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.