Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:04:21 -0600 (CST) From: "Don 'Duck' Harper" <duck@duckland.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912142300070.33764-100000@bs.duckland.org> In-Reply-To: <38571717.F25976F7@newsguy.com>
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Sometime Tomorrow, Daniel C. Sobral said something like this: :-)But the fact is that when we get featured in a magazine article, :-)user-friendly install == GUI. No GUI, it's not an user-friendly install. :-)End of review. You can kick and scream all you want, that's the way it :-)is. Either we live by these rules, or we loose. :-) :-)> >From a techical standpoint, yes, an X based install would be far too large :-)> for a single floppy, even at the simplest level. AND, again, as someone :-)> who has installed FreeBSD dozens of times on various systems, I think I :-)> should also stress that I have NEVER installed FreeBSD from CD :-) :-) :-)Me neither, but CD is still the most popular installation media these :-)days, though we, Open Source OS, probably get more network installs than :-)CD installs. From the linux world ( I know, bad word :), there are two distrubutions which use a GUI based install. Caldera's & Red Hat. The Red Hat is based on python, and auto-detects if the graphics card is capable of X. Then it fires up XFree86's VGA server. And it fits all this on one floppy. They do have two floppies, one for local CD/disk installs, and another for NFS/FTP/HTTP/SMB installs. So, I know it can be done. Is it worth the effort? I donno. Just a view from a FreeBSD newbie, long time Linux guy. Don -- Don Harper, RHCE, MCSE | work: duck@colltech.com cell: (512) 751-9888 Team Austin | Pager: (800) Sky-Page, pin 303-7055 Collective Technologies | http://www.colltech.com http://www.duckland.org A Pencom Company | home: duck@duckland.org | finger duck@duckland.org for PGP key He Who Dies with the Most Toys Still Dies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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