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- From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
- Subject: Re: Is runnning BSD feasible??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.084704.10129@autelca.ascom.ch>
- Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
- References: <1992Aug26.075926.12149@cosy.sbg.ac.at> <kilroy.714836643@mik.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:47:04 GMT
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- kilroy@mik.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy) writes:
-
- >Hi all,
-
- > Sorry, I dont know if this is a FAQ so please bear with me...
- > I was wondering if running BSD on a 486 with 8 meg of ram on a
- > pc in my home is feasible(ie. not too many bugs). I have heard
- > mixed reviews about the bugginess of BSD. I would be doing simple
- > things such as running X-windows, writting small programs for
- Now is the time for X to become simple :-) :-)
- Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.
-
- But serious:
- I installed the base system on a 486/25 Mhz with 16MB of RAM (will
- increase swap space after installing the kernel source), the
- 1542B controller in about two hours (from floppy). That did include
- the copying of the 10 Floppies to harddisk on another PC (via
- Ethernet) and then to the floppies. This took about half an hour.
- Before that, I spent one hour to figure out that the WD ethernet
- adaptor which is in this system running 386BSD had a hardware
- problem (checksum error in address ROM) but was detected by 386BSD.
- So, all in all the real installation took about one hour and it
- worked after the first try. Even with a 25 MB MS-DOS partition.
-
- Norbert.
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