From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 9:34:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vbcomm.net (climax.vbcomm.net [208.178.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDEB37B417 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 09:34:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Real-Return-Path: filipak@earthlink.net Received: from earthlink.net ([208.178.123.64]) by mail.vbcomm.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA31699; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:25:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3CC19880.3BF5BE96@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:34:08 -0400 From: Mark Filipak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Toomas Aas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mark suggests: Put /floppies/MAKE1440.BAT on CD #1 References: <200204200805.g3K857h10912@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Toomas! Toomas Aas wrote: > > Hi Mark! > > > Why make making boot floppies so hard for newbies when it can be > > semi-automated? > > > > MAKE1440.BAT contents: > > I don't say anything about you personally, but IMHO people who find > it difficult to run some simple DOS commands should think twice about > installing FreeBSD. Double-clicking this and that won't get you too > far once you have the thing installed, anyway. I basically agree with you, but why make things harder than they need to be? Is UNIX *supposed to be* a gauntlet that someone has to run? There is *easy* and there is *friendly*. The people here are friendly. UNIX will not be easy. But can't it at least be friendly? My Opinion -- a newbie's opinion. Ciao -- Mark -- See my resume: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/resume/ See my music trade pages: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/music/ Last updated: 14 April 2002 Q: Is UNIX the spawn of Satan? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message