Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:01:06 -0600 (CST) From: Thomas Veldhouse <veldy@visi.com> To: "Don 'Duck' Harper" <duck@duckland.org> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912150859590.10609-100000@isis.visi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912142300070.33764-100000@bs.duckland.org>
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There a more Linux distros with grahical installs. Correl 1.0 - based upon debian. Also, I believe that SUSE 6.3 has one also. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Don 'Duck' Harper wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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