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- From: philsuth@mycroft.DIALix.oz.au (phil sutherland)
- Subject: 386BSD - my first 2 days
- Reply-To: philsuth@DIALix.oz.au
- Organization: Yes
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 03:24:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.032412.815@mycroft.DIALix.oz.au>
- Summary: Excellent!!!
- Lines: 68
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- Gentle netfolk,
-
- Here's a success story, to provide a little bit of a change from
- problem reports/fixes and endless wrangling on the USL/BSDI lawsuit.
-
- Last Saturday I joyfully sacrificed 200Mb worth of SCO filesystems,
- and got 386BSD up and running on my computer. The whole affair went
- really smoothly, thanks to heaps of help during the early installation
- from someone who'd been through the whole process far too many times
- himself (Greetings, Comrade!). Hardware configuration was as follows:-
-
- 386DX 25MHz(uncached) C&T chipset
- 8Mb memory
- Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller
- Quantum PS210S (200Mb) drive
- 3.5" floppy drive
- EGA
- WD8003E ethernet card
-
- We did the installation via the ethernet from another 386BSD machine,
- and the only snag hit was the known problem with the conflicting
- Isolan driver in the kernel causing the WD Ethernet card to not
- communicate. We ftp'd a different initial kernel and it was almost
- boring from there on in! The installation was a custom job, as I
- wanted a decent amount of swap space and several filesystems. The
- whole exercise took about 4.5 hours. I've still got to pick up the
- etc01 distribution, though.
-
- On Sunday I got down to some serious fun. Firstly (and most
- important for a vi hater like me!) I got Gnu Emacs 18.58 ported.
- That went fairly smoothly - the only compilation error was due to
- slightly different FILE structures in stdio.
-
- I then recompiled the kernel to prove I could (only snag was the
- well-known vers.c problem), and then made a few alterations to
- pccons.c (the console device driver) to make the keyboard a little
- more emacs-friendly. [Details and patches by email if anyone's
- interested]. I also built in the updated in_cksum.c that Bakul Shah
- posted a day or two back. Haven't tested that yet, though, as my
- ethernet transciever is off doing important work elsewhere....
-
- I then installed and tried working with an Archive 5945C tape drive
- on an SC-499 controller. This is a 60Mb unit, which doesn't work with
- the standard wt.c. Dan Muntz's modified wt.c worked, albiet very
- slowly - but he warned that that would be the case (Thanks, Dan!).
-
- My next moves will be to get sendmail and uucp configured,
- and cnews, nn, and elm ported. At that stage, I'll be ready to place
- ultimate faith in 386BSD 0.1, as I transfer my day to day connectivity
- with the world to it. uucp that is, I don't have a Real Link (tm) yet.
-
- Gee, I haven't had this much fun since I first got my fingers on a
- U**x system. Thanks Bill, Lynne, and the host of others....
-
- phil (new and fanatical convert)
-
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- phil sutherland | Clothed in facts
- perth, western australia | truth feels oppressed;
- ---------------------------------| in the garb of poetry
- philsuth@DIALix.oz.au | it moves easy and free.
- ---------------------------------| -- Rabindranath Tagore
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- phil sutherland | Clothed in facts
- | truth feels oppressed;
- ---------------------------------| in the garb of poetry
-