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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1438 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:41:52 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:26376 comp.unix.bsd:11291 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!emory!cowpas!cfs From: cfs@cowpas.atl.ga.us (Charles Stephens) Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD? Followup-To: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd References: <C2I6x0.LzD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: COW Pastures Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 04:29:48 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Message-ID: <1993Feb17.042948.25850@cowpas.atl.ga.us> Lines: 37 Thomas Aaron Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu) wrote: : eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: : : > 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. : : Not counting the ftp time, it took me about 1/2 an hour to install Linux : and LILO. Admittedly, I'm not using X (some extra disks), and I still : have to re-configure my kernel to use my 3c503 ethernet card, but that : would be a one-time investment of time if I wanted to install on many : machines. Well I can install DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, and 386BSD, in the amount of time I waste reading this stupid thread. Just install what YOU want and shut up about it (unless you have a IAQ (anti-FAQ)). Thank you. (Flames can go directly to hell). -- Charles Stephens life.c: In function `living_hell': cfs@cowpas.atl.ga.us life.c:666: warning: variable `purpose' is undefined