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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs ....
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References: <41epe5$onh@mailnews.kub.nl> <41fkur$srh@driene.student.utwente.nl> <41g4rf$3gh@agate.berkeley.edu> <41hhsm$9hj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 05:40:45 GMT
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In article <41hhsm$9hj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:

>Maybe it's not the right addressee, but i've recently attempted to
>install a Slackware-based distribution (and failed for some reason i
>won't go into here).  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).

Sorry, is it right that I understand it as you call yourself a guru?!

May I give you a compliment: you're right.

(Just wanted to catch the opportunity to say that so that everyone
can hear it. Thanks for taking so much time for others' problems,
even mine.)

Sorry for being off-topic, but I found it necessary to say.
Otherwise - as often as Joerg's name appears in this newsgroup,
it may not be really necessary...

Bye,
    Martin
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