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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning Date: 2 Sep 1993 21:27:26 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <265ofu$8l2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <746948012.8813.0@unix7.andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Sep2.161156.11217@prepress.com> <265jj4$6cr@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <265jj4$6cr@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>, Marc WANDSCHNEIDER <storm@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote: >In article <1993Sep2.161156.11217@prepress.com> Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com> writes: > Again, this is all FREE stuff, meaning these people have NO > obligation whatsoever to make the setup program as nice as > xxx's install program. If enough people want it, then I'm > sure somebody will go and fix it. Why not make this > project for yourself? This is the main stumbling block that I see to *BSD gaining wider acceptance. The installation sux rocks. It's difficult and generally a pain. Almost every vendor that I know of boots and builds a mini-root in ram, loads a fairly complete minimal set of tools, and then lets you go crazy. *BSD's is a lot of grief. The end result is worth it, but it's a lot of grief. This is the big plus with BSDI. Install tool (or at least the partitioning/ boot setup tool) is great. Worth $1k? doubtful. (They don't build a miniroot either). If I understood all the vagaries of the BIOS translation / no translation problem, I would be inclined to look at it, but I don't quite get all the subtleties, and would end up spinning my wheels endlessly. Yes, I've read and saved everything bruce and terry have posted, and I still get confused about it sometimes. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu