Subject: Re: Ease of installation (was: Nice to see NetBSD mentioned. However...)
To: None <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 01/08/2001 13:55:33
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:08:39AM +0100, hubert@feyrer.de wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > 2.  NetBSD.  The install program doesn't look as sexy as FreeBSD, but
> >     it works well, and it's fast.  There's a good reason for it being
> >     fast: it leaves you with a half-configured system.  [Caveat: This
> >     was with 1.4-RELEASE about 1½ years ago.  It could have changed
> >     since.
> 
> Between "absolutely unconfigured" and "everything possible configured (X,
> apps, ...)" there are many stages, and the one that NetBSD 1.5 leaves you

I'm sure the reviewer was referring to rc_configured=NO, which is,
thankfully, gone. I understand why it was done - as a stopgap to
encourage a secure system config, but 1.5's approach is better for me.

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
All this stuff in twice the space would only look half as bad!
					      - me