why BSDs got no love

2009-12-15 Thread Jan Husar
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Re: why BSDs got no love

2009-12-15 Thread Peer Schaefer
I disagree (partially). 1st: PCBSD has a graphical installer. But I don't think a graphical installer is needed. An installer with a curses-like menu-driven interface is sufficient for most techy users (and face it: aunt Jamie is not the target audience for *BSD). But I admit that some menus of th

Re: why BSDs got no love

2009-12-15 Thread Han Hwei Woo
1. Graphical installers don't work over serial consoles. 2. There is a live CD. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso . Use FreeSBIE if you need a live cd with a graphical environment. 3. mount -t ext2fs Peer Schaefer wrote: > I disagree (partially).