Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:23:12 -0600 From: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050210002311.GA30113@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <420A5969.5010705@veldy.net> References: <20050208034855.D211E43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <420A5969.5010705@veldy.net>
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:41:45PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Besides, I can think of several situations where you wouldn't really > want a GUI based installation, in particular, when building and > configuring a server. A GUI based installation required the detection > [perhaps accurate might be oder] of the video hardware, which in > general just doesn't matter on a server. And though most i386 hardware is broken in this respect, don't forget that in many other architectures, the video hardware may not even EXIST. Even some high-end x86 server boards allow booting without a video card. Think serial install on a 1U headless server with only power, network, and serial port. Craig
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