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- From: rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens)
- Subject: Re: Loading 386bsd via slip?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.215039.6655@noao.edu>
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
- References: <2AAAC655.6B7B@deneva.sdd.trw.com> <Sep.7.14.04.24.1992.270@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:50:39 GMT
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- >I got continuous silo overflows under 386BSD (at 9600 bps using a 33
- >MHz 486). I ended up downloading the files under Linux and writing
- >floppies! I believe you could use tip to dial the modem and get
- >things started, but if my experience is typical (there are reports
- >saying similar things), SLIP isn't quite ready yet.
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- I loaded BSD/386 using slip because I had a laptop without an Ethernet
- card, and I didn't want to take the time to write/read floppies. There
- were continual silo overflows, but eventually it gets through. It took me
- one hour and 45 minutes to load root, and another ~15 hours to load /usr.
-
- Rich Stevens (rstevesns@noao.edu)
-