Subject: Re: Ease of installation (was: Nice to see NetBSD mentioned. However...)
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Simon Raahauge DeSantis <xiamin@ghostpriest.rakis.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 01/08/2001 13:06:21
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:55:33PM -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.
>
Uh, the rc.conf that comes with 1.5 has rc_configured=NO...
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-Simon Raahauge DeSantis