Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 09:28:45 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X based Free installation Message-ID: <724.884107725@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 11:10:25 -0200." <3.0.1.32.19980106111025.0068aeec@pop.mpc.com.br>
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> Is there any plan to make a X based installation for FreeBSD ? Nope. Too much trouble and bootstrapping the user into an X server, even a 16 color one, is also a non-trivial exercise, especially from a 1.44MB boot floppy (though I suppose you could stay out of X until you got your media pipe open and could suck over a 2nd-stage install and its infrastructure). In any case, every one of the other 5000 or so times this exact same question has come up, I've generally said the same thing: If somebody really feels like they have the cojones to sit down and implement something like this, submitting a viable proof-of-concept to me or anyone else on the FreeBSD development team, we'll be more than happy to look at it! Jordan
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