From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 16:31: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (danman.isdn.uiuc.edu [192.17.16.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E61EB14F7E for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: (qmail 15367 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1999 00:30:17 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:30:17 -0600 From: dannyman To: Brett Glass Cc: Keith Stevenson , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <19990302183017.A15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <4.1.19990302095928.00b3d4c0@localhost> <4.1.19990302092127.03ff9da0@localhost> <99Mar2.114516est.113920@pandora.isinet.com> <4.1.19990302095928.00b3d4c0@localhost> <19990302125540.A28002@homer.louisville.edu> <4.1.19990302130844.00ca3740@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302130844.00ca3740@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:09:39PM -0700 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 01:09:39PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:55 PM 3/2/99 -0500, Keith Stevenson wrote: > > >I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree here. I've done more RedHat Linux > >installs than I care to admit to, and all you need to install it over the > >internet is a pair of floppies. You write the install images on to the > >floppies, boot the first one, and then insert the second one to load the > >device drivers for most network cards. > > IIRC, you can't use PPP for Red Hat at all, though. And this is the way > most users connect to the Net. I'd expect most sane people would sooner buy the CD than do a modum install. ;) -d -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message