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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!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!retro!hlu From: hlu@retro.lanl.gov (Henry Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: *** Is FreeBSD easy to install ??? *** Date: 16 Oct 1996 19:14:26 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 49 Message-ID: <543c6i$6eo@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <3248ab21.5993197@news.inetnow.net> <52bss1$2gg@orion.cybercom.net> <53baal$pd1@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: retro.lanl.gov X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@george.lbl.gov) wrote: : 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 | My experience is that freeBSD is way difficult and dangerous to install than linux. I had no disaster with linux. However the first installation of freeBSD got all MBR screwed up and I had to delete linux partition to recover. freeBSD fdisk sucks and partition table is hard to understand by newbie.