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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 20 Jan 1997 17:40:55 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <32E2A49F.60A9C4F2@yorku.ca>,
Derek Browne <yu100087@yorku.ca> wrote:
> Hmmm. I like the FreeBSD but installation was about 6million time
> harder. I went through the installation about 50 times and I found that
> if I entered the exact same information I never got the same results
> twice. I am still not sure how I finally got it up and running!
I had the opposite problem with FreeBSD versus Red Hat. Though either
was a good deal easier than Windows NT... it eventually turned out that
there was a bug in the shipped install floppy, and the patched one
worked quite well. Until I found that out I was sitting there staring
at this prompt where it was asking me to enter LILO commands to get it
to find my SCSI card with zero explanation as to what LILO was and what
commands it accepted.
My recommendation, if I were to have been asked at that point (before I
found out what the problem was) would have been not to try installing Linux
without a good Linux expert at hand. Anecdotal evidence should be taken with
a grain of salt.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'