From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 19 17:19:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA16945 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 17:19:56 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA16938 ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 17:19:53 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id RAA00210; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 17:19:21 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA09423; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:49:35 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507200019.JAA09423@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger, MCSNet) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:49:35 +0930 (CST) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hsu@cs.hut.fi, jmacd@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" at Jul 19, 95 01:09:05 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1137 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Karl Denninger, MCSNet stands accused of saying: > I happen to personally HATE the installer that FreeBSD uses, as adding disks > to an existing system is a real bitch of a job the way they do things. The > nice (and it IS nice) installer that you get when you boot disk #1 is not > available once you have it up, and that's really too bad -- if FreeBSD had a > nice, clean disk partitioning and labelling tool I'd be in hog heaven right > now. Um, Jordan, I have this odd recollection of you announcing a version of the installer floppy that let you do the individual thangs all by themselves, rather than committing to mounting/extracting/etc; do I have bats inside, or what? > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[