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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1375 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:37:29 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:26222 comp.unix.bsd:11246 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD? Message-ID: <1993Feb15.030611.18966@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Followup-To: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1993Feb13.030204.11977@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 03:06:11 GMT Lines: 24 callahan@vax.oxford.ac.uk wrote: : However, you said that it takes "days". I have installed SLS in about We only need half an hour to install the basic distribution of 386bsd. The latest dist.fs helps because we do not need to use nu or other partition editor to put the A5 code. : four hours a couple of times, counting the time taken to download the : files from the net and then onto floppy (given a net-connected machine : with a floppy drive, and mtools). It would have been shorter but I was : (1) installing onto a *very* slow machine (386sx-16, slow hard disk) : (2) making lots of hand cuts to install into a relatively small partition. 4 hours is virtually the whole day which we cannot afford. We have installed 10 386bsd systems with full XFree86 and networking in 1.5 hours, and that includes giving it a host name, by far the most tedious process. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet