On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:55 -0700, asdf wrote:

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> --- Marco Peereboom  wrote:

>

> > I installed FreeBSD once in my life.  Took me 3 tries and I am sure some

> > kittens were murdered in the process.  I am also pretty sure I wept at

> > some point.  Honestly I can't remember a much worse installer; maybe SCO

> > OpenServer but not by much.

> >

>

> I've used FreeBSD and Linux for some time (> 5 years) now and IMO I don't think the

> FreeBSD installer is _that_ bad. It might be confusing to the first time novice user

> but honestly I've seen worse Linux installers.

Linux, the kernel, does not have an installer. Only the GNU variant

operating systems using Linux, the kernel, actually have installers.
Assuming this is what you meant, could you actually name which ones?
> Having said that I think that the OpenBSD installer is awesome. Nothing beats its

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> simplicity, and it's one of the few installers I can think of (besides NetBSD

> perhaps?) that boots from one floppy disk. How amazing is that??!!

>

> No need whatsoever to even think of changing the OpenBSD installer - it just works

> so well.

I will agree it does, once one overcomes any intimidation factor from

getting a tty interface. (Not that there ever was such intimidation for

*me*, mind you.)
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Shawn K. Quinn