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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Impression Date: 23 Dec 1995 15:07:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4bh5vi$naq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4a6vve$l46@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu> <RDONG.95Dec8133059@chow.uci.edu> <4bekgn$go9@news1.wing.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:14268 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11105 pgf@american.com (Paul G. Fox) writes: > : The FreeBSD install procedure is quite impressive. Dynamic driver > : configuration, installation through an ftp server etc, all in a single > : floppy. I wish I can do that with Linux. > single floppy? i think you mean two... one boot, one root. One boot, one fixit. :-) Acutally, the ``root floppy'' is just only a floppy when you're doing a floppy-only installation. In all other cases, it's being retrieved from the installation medium automagically. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)