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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs .... Date: 25 Aug 1995 18:15:54 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <41l40q$cui@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <41epe5$onh@mailnews.kub.nl> <41fkur$srh@driene.student.utwente.nl> <41g4rf$3gh@agate.berkeley.edu> <41hhsm$9hj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: parker.eecs.berkeley.edu In article <41hhsm$9hj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >One thing i didn't like with the NFS >installation was that it didn't give me the opportunity to configure a >name server before actually using the NFS server address, so i had to >configure it from another VT manually (which non-Unix gurus wouldn't >know how to handle). Well, most non-gurus wouldn't install off of NFS, but nevermind that. :) Besides, aren't you suppose to enter the IP number, not name, for the NFS install? That way, you don't need a nameserver. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu