Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:09:21 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, perlsta@sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, capriotti@geocities.com Subject: Re: X based Free installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980107190624.26495E-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199801072210.PAA11976@usr06.primenet.com>
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, a commercial X server vendor volunteered a free 640x480 > X server for FreeBSD to use in this kind of install about a year > (maybe more?) ago, and was flatly turned down. Really? I don't recall that. I remember that no one had a graphical install tool, and running sysinstall in a window would be cheesy :). Also, XFree has a generic 640x480 server too. ... > In any case, as I pointed out in my last message of this subject, > you can get the same benefits without X -- my Windows 3.1 installer > example still stands, I think. sysinstall bites, but unless someone rewrites it, not much will change. As far as I know, Jordon has been talking about this for a while... > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > Tom
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