From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 8:30:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D1A37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C5B43F6D for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D0029E; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:30:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 32C872FDD8C; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:30:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:30:01 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de> Cc: Andrew Y Ng , James Hicks , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd curiosity Message-ID: <20030110163001.GQ1196@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de>, Andrew Y Ng , James Hicks , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030110160739.GA12170@AndrewNg.com> <20030110171328.F32936-100000@small.pukruppa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030110171328.F32936-100000@small.pukruppa.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # 520023893678-0001@t-online.de / 2003-01-10 17:23:29 +0000: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Andrew Y Ng wrote: > > > On 0, "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de> wrote: > > > And ... if you know Linux you can easily install and setup > > > FreeBSD on your machine and find out everything yourself. > > > > that's not really true, the RH installer is a lot easier to use for most ppl > > than sysinstall. for some reason I prefer sysinstall though, probably because > > I used to install NetBSD with their textbased installer and never had a > > problem with it. > You are right. When I started playing around with Linux (it was > Slackware at that time) the installation menu looked like > sysinstall. So it was easy to convert to FreeBSD. > Though, sysinstall gives you the chance to start with a lean, > minimal system and extend things the way you like. I think the slackware installer still looks like that. at least in 8.0 it looked like a poor man's /stand/sysinstall. [75 lines of bottom-quote snipped. please trim the quoted material.] -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message