There a more Linux distros with grahical installs. Correl 1.0 - based
upon debian. Also, I believe that SUSE 6.3 has one also.
Tom Veldhouse
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Don 'Duck' Harper wrote:
> Sometime Tomorrow, Daniel C. Sobral said something like this:
> :-)But the fact is that when we get featured in a magazine article,
> :-)user-friendly install == GUI. No GUI, it's not an user-friendly install.
> :-)End of review. You can kick and scream all you want, that's the way it
> :-)is. Either we live by these rules, or we loose.
> :-)
> :-)> >From a techical standpoint, yes, an X based install would be far too large
> :-)> for a single floppy, even at the simplest level. AND, again, as someone
> :-)> who has installed FreeBSD dozens of times on various systems, I think I
> :-)> should also stress that I have NEVER installed FreeBSD from CD :-)
> :-)
> :-)Me neither, but CD is still the most popular installation media these
> :-)days, though we, Open Source OS, probably get more network installs than
> :-)CD installs.
>
> >From the linux world ( I know, bad word :), there are two distrubutions
> which use a GUI based install. Caldera's & Red Hat. The Red Hat is based
> on python, and auto-detects if the graphics card is capable of X. Then it
> fires up XFree86's VGA server. And it fits all this on one floppy. They
> do have two floppies, one for local CD/disk installs, and another for
> NFS/FTP/HTTP/SMB installs.
>
> So, I know it can be done. Is it worth the effort? I donno.
>
> Just a view from a FreeBSD newbie, long time Linux guy.
>
> Don
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