From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 09:15:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA28513 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 09:15:05 -0700 Received: from netcom.netcom.com (mbar@netcom.netcom.com [192.100.81.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA28507 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 09:15:04 -0700 Received: by netcom.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id JAA15518; Thu, 25 May 1995 09:14:15 -0700 From: mbar@netcom.com (Matthew Barker) Message-Id: <199505251614.JAA15518@netcom.netcom.com> Subject: Really nice work. To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 09:14:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1183 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wanna thank someone (multiple) for the really fine job that was done in making the setup and install of FreeBSD V2.0 exceptionally easy. Especially when compared with Linux - the subject of more than a few wasted evenings. I needed to be able to work sometimes at home and had been through the wringer with Linux, trying to get it to recognise things at new port addresses or new IRQs or even just to get one of the many distributions to install without a hitch. The FreeBSD install was very nearly of the quality I'd expect from a commercial product! Also, when it came to configuring my mouse at an odd address, the kernel configuration file was the picture of ease, as well as allowing much more tolerance of variation in port/irq/drq for the various cards than the rather constrained Linux. I have a question about the MAKEDEV script, where it creates /dev/mouse as a symbolic link to the actual mouse device (mse* or pse*), the link that is being created, in my case, is /dev/mouse -> /dev/mouse I've not had a chance to investigate further, but if it is something, I'd really appreciate a point in the right direction. Matthew Barker (mbar@netcom.com)