Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:39:23 -0700 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why would one switch to FreeBSD (was: Mark asks: Easy way to copy CD-ROM > MS-floppy?) Message-ID: <20020423205809.1CCA837B425@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020421130157.GC8347@hades.hell.gr> References: <3CC0CAE5.A8A56319@earthlink.net> <3CC24B33.7102597C@earthlink.net> <20020421130157.GC8347@hades.hell.gr>
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I'm not on -questions, so I'm joining late... On Sunday 21 April 2002 06:01 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > [ Moved to -advocacy, since this is not an answer to -questions anymore. ] > > On 2002-04-21 01:16, Mark Filipak wrote: > > | Important Facts > > | =============== > > | * The existing installation has *no* man pages. I'm sure someone has already pointed this out, but if not, let me repeat: man pages are installed by default. If you didn't get them, it's because you chose not to install them. I've found that the FreeBSD man pages are the most complete and well written of any Unix or unix-like system I've yet encountered. > > | * The existing installation has *no* MS-DOS clone commands (e.g., > > | "mcd", "mcopy", etc.) > > | * I could not figure out if the system has what it takes to mount an > > | MS-DOS file system -- I don't know where things are. > > | * The resulting floppy must be readable by Win98SE. First, read the handbook and the faq. They are installed by default. Then check out "mtools", which isn't installed by default, but which is very easy to install yourself. If you want more advanced tools, try newfs_msdos and mount_msdos, which are installed by default. Let me repeat: read the handbook and faq. > Ever since I switched to FreeBSD, I discover more reasons every day > for not stopping to use it :) I especially love the fact that you can go from blank hard drive to a running FreeBSD system in fifteen minutes, which includes all the man pages, handbook, faq, and a plethora of msdos tools. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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