Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:22:47 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Andrew Pinkham" <defcon@mail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unix (you've got to be kidding me) Message-ID: <003001bfa309$02487780$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> References: <385240411.955317512089.JavaMail.root@web37.pub01>
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> I have one question > why the hell do you have to make it so hard to install unix from floopy > all of it makes absolutly no sense. > you don't even say which files you are suppose to copy to disk, and you > don't even say where to get them. Well, lets see. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people on this mailing list who've all seemed to figure it out, and more and more join the list daily. It's not hard at all. I either download the ISO image and burn it to a CD, or download the two *.flp files, which suprisingly would be in a directory called "floppies", use rawrite.exe to write the images to a disk, and I'm ready to go. rawrite is a common tool, but if you don't have it you can get it from "tools". I don't know who came up with the directory structure for the ftp site, and I can't figure out why they would name the directories/folders things like "releases" "floppies" and "tools". It's almost like they wanted it to be unbelievably obvious where things were <s>. So, we'll add your vote to the side that says "all of it makes absolutely no sense". Here's the current standings. "all-of-it-makes-absolutely-no-sense-why-the-hell-do-you-have-to-make-it-so- hard" Votes: 3 "what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about-could-we-possibly-make-it-any-easier-my -15-year-old-brother-can-do-it" Votes: 251,234 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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