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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in1.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 23 Aug 1995 16:06:49 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <41fjmp$6ei@reason.cdrom.com> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rpge$fta@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <KSTAILEY.95Aug16165754@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <4132n5$8et@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <MICHAELV.95Aug21224101@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <KSTAILEY.95Aug22093652@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:KSTAILEY.95Aug22093652@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:778 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4664 kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) wrote: >Anyhow, I built "owl.dol-esa.gov" by sticking a VL-IDE controller and >1GB IDE HD into my SCSI system at home and built the disk that way. >Are my knuckles hairy enough yet? Hey, no way! You want to impress us, we want to see you install *BSD by kludging up your OWN installation disk that partitions the disk and then downloads the rest of the distribution over a 300 baud acoustically coupled modem and handles all the error correction so that even if you thump the table and have your little sister scream into the extension, you can still continue from where you left off in mid-byte stream. And besides, you disqualified yourself already by using a 1GB drive. Real Men don't need more than a 45MB ST-506 drive and 2MB of memory 'cause it's just not a CHALLENGE otherwise! Any wimply AOL-using newbie can install on an entire gigabyte, for gawdsake! Where are your balls, man? Jordan P.S. Anybody who *needs* a smiley here also needs serious help and probably shouldn't be reading either of these newsgroups.