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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!iag.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!agate!overload.lbl.gov!george.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? *** Date: 7 Oct 1996 16:15:17 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 42 Message-ID: <53baal$pd1@overload.lbl.gov> References: <3248ab21.5993197@news.inetnow.net> <52bss1$2gg@orion.cybercom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: george-2.lbl.gov In article <52evk5$ckr@electra.saaf.se>, G|ran Hasse <gorhas@electra.saaf.se> wrote: >In article <52bss1$2gg@orion.cybercom.net>, >The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> wrote: >>Philip Chong (pchong@inetnow.net) wrote: >>: Is FreeBSD easy to install? >>: I have a typical Dell XPS P-100. >>: It is a EIDE system with a NEC CD-ROM and awe-32 and #9 video card. >> >>I think FreeBSD is the most difficult OS installation I've ever done. >>Not that its impossible or anything, but the installer will only go >>so far with getting your system configured. Experience with Unix and >>IBM-compatible PCs will come in handy here. > >Then you have not been around for a long time. If you have tried >to install SCO and InteractiveUnix some years ago - then you could >talk about difficult. > >(Note: DOS and Windows is not an operating systems - only program >loaders. They are easy to install but they dont take control over >hardware and are therefor easy). DOS is an operating system even though MS-DOS is a junk designed O.S. by whoever wrote it. The basic O.S. function is to load program for human being. Anyway, working with tons of O.S., from VMS, DOS, different types of UNIX, even linux, the FreeBSD is the one I take the least time to manage it. Approximately three-hour to complete system installation from knowing it. About three-day to master it. How long does one take to buy a DOS and install it? (Not in an hour, unless someone sells DOS across the street from your home) Compare with learning linux, it is much easy for me. To install linux, it takes me about three-day to understand it, and about three-week barely to manage it (LILO ?). Some one may say that you have not use linux recently. I only compare them at the time when the FreeBSD 2.0.5 was delivered. :-) -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |