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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Impression Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 24 Dec 1995 16:59:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4bk0t7$nnq@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4a6vve$l46@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu> <RDONG.95Dec8133059@chow.uci.edu> <4bekgn$go9@news1.wing.net> <4bh5vi$naq@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:14521 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11383 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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. Sorry to bust your chops ;-). Actually it is totally orthoginal, not a special case for the root floppy. I mean if you are installing from floppies, then floppies are your installation medium, and behold that's where your "root" is comming from. :-))) See, isn't the FreeBSD install logical and great? I think so, gets easier and better with each version -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)