Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 15:54:53 -0700 From: Amancio <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <199710192254.PAA00707@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:25:44 CDT." <Pine.HPP.3.96.971019155919.19161A-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>
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Well, Yeap, I was very confused as to what boot kernel to use , I really don't expect your typical user to be that savvy about chosing the right boot disk execpt of course by trial and error . Also, the two boot disk installation approach was cute however I really felt at home went I log on to the boot installation process -- so you boot the floppy or whatever after the system comes up you log on . The console output felt sluggish compare to freebsd . "make world" and cvsup on linux are broken 8) BTW: does anyone know whats on the "d" section of the slackware distribution , very, very doshish if you ask me -- thats a joke folks. Well, I am safely back to FreeBSD 8) Cheers, Amancio > On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Amancio wrote: > > > For the first time, I installed slackware3.3 on my spare ide drive. > > For starters, I was totally confused by the installation procedure, > > I too recently had to do a couple of slackware 3.3 installs. > > I was surprised that there didn't seem to be a way to FTP the > installation packages during install time, a la FreeBSD. It appeared the > best way to install was to FTP the installation files into a FAT > filesystem (i.e., drive C: in DOS). And how about the bazillion > installation boot disks from which to choose? > > As for the kernel, it really surprised me that I couldn't just copy a new > kernel into place and have it boot (LILO must keep a table of addresses > of the kernel's disk blocks for INT 13 access at boot time?). > > > Not sure if linux has a network install package however I couldn't > > find it. > > Are you refering to the "n" package for TCP/IP? Tnks I am going to try to setup network -- wish me luck!! > > Slackware left me with the impression that it was too slanted to > > hackers and for the life of me I can't figure out why people > > prefer linux to Freebsd -- it seems that Freebsd will be easier > > on newbies. > > Ditto. I also didn't like the requirement that one had to stay in front > of the terminal to answer "yes/no" questions for each optional part of the > packages (it appears this can be automated, but I prefer FreeBSD's > approach of interactively pre-selecting the pieces before the install > begins). > > Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu > Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer > Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory >
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