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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1511 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:45:54 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:26520 comp.unix.bsd:11343 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu!pauls From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD? Date: 16 Feb 1993 22:04:02 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1lroci$ed9@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <1993Feb13.030204.11977@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1993Feb15.030611.18966@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <C2I6x0.LzD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu >> : 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. [...] >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 386BSD with X, Mach, Motif, and a NeXT Step 486 partition from 360k floppies in about 4.2 minutes. Furthermore the fact that I do it so fast means that it works better, right? Paul Southworth Computer Systems Consultant UM - Ann Arbor pauls@umich.edu