On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 01:55:44PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> Last I tried FreeBSD required three floppies, although I'm not sure were
> all actually used. NetBSD(/i386) requiring only one floppy is a huge win
> at least for me. I can't seem to locate two working floppies in the same
> city there days.

I also tried an install, which needed 2 disks for the install, and a
third for diagnosis. (Emergency Holographic Shell)

The install recognized the Intel Etherexpress, but wouldn't send/receive
traffic on it. (The same machine and card worked fine under NetBSD and er,
'NT') I posted to a FreeBSD list and got a reply, but no one could
suggest anything.

I tried the EHS to see if I could get any further. The EHS was
frustratingly limited. It didn't have many of the utilities that I
get when dropping to a shell from the 1 disk NetBSD sysinst.
(It isn't a real shell either, it was confused by many things I
typed.)

It seemed to me that FreeBSD had focused a lot on CD based installs.
I wanted to do a network install. I never did get the machine
running FreeBSD.

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