Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:46:37 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Richard Lyon <rlyon@oznet07.ozemail.com.au> Cc: Ronald Darden <rdarden@phoenix.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation difficulty Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970301154243.181A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970301114004.203A-100000@rlyon.mynet.au>
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> > In short, your installation s$%^s! > > > > By what standards are you making this judgement? Do you expect free > software to compete against an installation procedure which cost millions > of dollars to construct? FBSD is not microsoft. > Thank god it isn't microsoft *g* Personally I Like the FreeBSD configuration over the various linux config styles across distributions. The "1 disk with practically everything" philosophy is excellent, and being able to muck about with driver params on startup is even better. Linux *CAN* do this, but only using a "ramdisk" style root fs to boot up from, with which you load the required modules from, then kill it and continue booting normally. To be honest, sure it saves some memory space, but its not like getting a machine with a decent amount of RAM is very expensive these days. In short, if you don't like FreeBSD's setup, go and try something else. Adrian.
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