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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Installing Dell UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150746.11905@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:07:46 GMT
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <1992Dec22.211507.2349@odin.diku.dk>, thorinn@diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes:
- | davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- |
- | > Dell [...] support two media, each less common than the other for
- | >PCs. Installing on a laptop is always an adventure, you don't
- | >normally have tape, they don't believe in floppies, they don't
- | >support the little eithernet thing that hooks to the parallel port so
- | >you can use their excellent net install...
- |
- | Why don't you start a VAR business, repackaging Dell UNIX onto
- | laptop-friendly installation media? Seriously, if it is so sorely
- | needed, you would think that somebody would be doing it already.
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- Dell isn't interested as far as I can tell. They cite the high cost of
- media duplication and verification, and low demand. lack of CD support
- really puzzles me, since I (as an individual) can turn out CDs cheaper
- than I can buy the tapes in Q1000. SCO is talking about distributing
- beta copies on CD because it's cheaper for them.
-
- I still find Dell worth the effort though, if you want to run V.4 that
- seems a good way to go.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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