It was thus said that the Great Mike Ford once stated:
I take an aside to this. The current crop of BSD
and Linux flavored unix
like
OSs seem to be as easy to install as W9x. With one caveat, the unix
camp is steeped in 30+ years of unix culture. It is this culture that
When you have a LOT of unix experience they do seem about as easy to
install, but I am a fairly normal, knowledgable person and it took me
roughly 12 hours to get my first NetBSD system running on a Mac IIci as a
limited function Nat/firewall. I still don't "understand" much of what I
had to do, but the mechanics of doing it are much more familiar. Exiting vi
the first time I edited /etc/resolv.rc only took about an hour.
NetBSD wasn't one of the eaisest things I've installed (on an HP/Apollo
400 series---ended up having to recompile my Linux kernel and calculate the
physical layout of the drives and partition them by hand) but it was a fun
way to spend a day (looking back, at the time I was cursing up a storm).
Then again, HP/Apollos aren't mainstream systems.
But I had trouble installing RedHat on a laptop with only 4M RAM and 120M
harddrive (I did it, but the method involved making a 120M disk image and
transfering it to the laptop ... )
-spc (That one took me two days ... )