John S. Dyson said:
> Christofer C. Bell said:
> > > On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Ted Lemon wrote:
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > > I don't see many new UN*X users sticking it out through the poorly
> > > > > documented install procedure under NetBSD.  Then again, if the purpose is
> > > > > to discourage newbies from using NetBSD, then that's another story ;->
> > > >
> > > > That's not really true.   The FreeBSD setup process is theoretically
> > > > much more friendly than the NetBSD process, but in practice it isn't
> > > > really - it works too hard to make things easy for the user, and
> > > > sometimes gets things badly wrong.
> > 
> > One of the reasons I use NetBSD is because I am not a new UN*X user and
> > I don't want my hand held.  I don't want to be insulated from the
> > process.  I want full control over the raw system.  I would wager that
> > there are a lot of users of NetBSD out there that use NetBSD/i386 over
> > FreeBSD (i386 only) for that very reason.  
> > 
> > Sure, I think it's great to be able to come up with a slick installer
> > for people that seem to *need* hand-holding, but please leave the
> > ability to do a "raw" install. :)
> > 
> I can (and have) installed a FreeBSD system manually without the installer,
> just as I can (and have) installed a NetBSD manually without an installer.
> That ability is missing in FreeBSD.  One is *very* welcome to avoid a system
                  ^^^ NOT missing
Sorry...

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