Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 13:26:53 -0500 From: Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X based Free installation Message-ID: <34B2776D.7E87@njcc.com> References: <724.884107725@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan, I was *quite* impressed with the ease of installation that the (then) current R2.2.2 Install CD provided. With that diskette and a few scraps of information regarding my local ISP I was able to take an idle 386DX/40 and a 14.4K modem and get FreeBSD up and running in a few hours! Shortly after I performed this feat I downlaoded a copy of the QNX Internet Application Toolbox kit from QNX (an OS, Windows manager and browser on one 1.44 Meg diskette) and was equally impressed. The current instal diskette is easliy as good as the install tools provided in comercial linux (Red Hat and Caldera) distributions, and the FreeBSD one even includes dial-up tools for users without a direct internet connection! A great tool, IMHO. Ken khansen@njcc.com Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Is there any plan to make a X based installation for FreeBSD ? > > Nope. Too much trouble and bootstrapping the user into an X server, > even a 16 color one, is also a non-trivial exercise, especially from a > 1.44MB boot floppy (though I suppose you could stay out of X until you > got your media pipe open and could suck over a 2nd-stage install and > its infrastructure).
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