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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>
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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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