Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:42:04 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802143811.0517eee0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200008022048.NAA01799@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:14:54 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20000802141320.046d1ca0@localhost>
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At 02:48 PM 8/2/2000, Mike Smith wrote: >> Because I want some things that wouldn't be on >> CD-ROM. The easiest way to install everything from one >> source is to do a net install. > >This is bollocks. You can change the media during the install, not to >mention rebooting if you're so wrought up over the pccard issues and then >resuming installing afterwards. There should be no need to do this. It should be easy and painless to do a complete, straight-through network install. What's more, the problems with PCMCIA cards aren't limited to network cards. NO card will work properly by default on such a machine, either during installation or afterward. This does not make FreeBSD look good on portables. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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