On Monday,  8 January 2001 at 13:55:33 -0400, David Maxwell wrote:
> 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.

If by "the reviewer" you mean me, no, I wasn't referring to that.  I
was referring to the fact that, at least in 1.4, I needed to do a
whole lot of things after reboot that I would have been able to do
with the FreeBSD sysinstall program.

Greg
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