Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:41:04 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Tom <tom@sdf.com>, capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X based Free installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980108213920.300F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199801081854.LAA17141@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > GUI is doable, you just can't do it during the install. It is chicken > > and egg problem. You can't get a nice X display, until you've installed > > an X server for your video card, and lots of support software. > > Don't say "can't" here. Microsoft does it. They use a dumb VGA driver, > and install accelerated ones that are card specific later. > > > X is large. It wouldn't fit on single disk. CD ROM would work (have a > > fully installed X on CD with support for all different video adapters. > > But what about non-CDROM installs? FTP installs are very popular. It's really only a question of size. I clearly remember, a long time back, that XiG offered, completely free of charge, to let FreeBSD have a VGA 640X400 only server, ready to go, for installs. Such a thing doesn't need to know your video card, so it's only a question of size. > > You could always make them NFS installs instead of FTP, and have the > distribution sites allow anonymous NFS. Many of the big archives > allow anonymous NFS already. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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