> 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. :)

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