Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 17:33:03 -0400 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GUI debate Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970903173303.009f0e10@cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <19970903220427.23767@grendel.IAEhv.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903080757.6746E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <199709030739.AAA00286@rah.star-gate.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903080757.6746E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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At 10:04 PM 9/3/97 +0200, Peter Korsten wrote: >The two - text install and graphical install - aren't mutually >exclusive. If I may draw our friends from Redmond, WA into the >picture again, they start with a text install (on three floppies) >and only after that start with the CD-ROM and the graphics. That would be my thought -- not that the installation program has to fit on a floppy. (Nice, but not essential.) But the boot floppy (or floppies) should have enough to bootstrap the CD-ROM, which could have something more lavish. K.S.
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