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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2298 comp.os.linux.misc:12753 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!not-for-mail From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 14 Apr 1994 09:44:22 -0500 Organization: University of Houston Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2ojks6$qtg@menudo.uh.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nm6tb$m6u@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <klee.765909343@imagen> NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu In article <klee.765909343@imagen>, Kanghoon Lee <klee@imagen.com> wrote: >I admit that I was not impressed with NetBSD installation program, Good ! >but I think you have not read FAQ at all. >If you read FAQ, it says that use TINY_BSD to >label the Unix Partition, boot with DOS and use pfdisk to get the partition >information BEFORE installing the NetBSD. When I did that, I have not had >any problem installing NetBSD on my machine or another machine at work. I used >NetBSD to communicate between Sun Workstations, and had very good performance >on running X. I guess NetBSD group did not spend enough time to write a nice >installation program for DUMB users who cannot read. I think a DUMB user has >no rights to flame. I think that DUMB readers have no right to post :) Read my posts again. If you just follow the faq or Install documents, it just won't work ! Also, the BSD Faq is notorious in that most of the contents are excessively useless, and when it is really needed, either it doesn't exist or very vaguely or shortly described.