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From: dwoods@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Lord of Morgul)
Subject: Questions about 386bsd - possible new user
Message-ID: <C5C6vL.J6I@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Summary:  Want some advice from current users
Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 20:42:57 GMT
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Hi, a couple of fairly indepth questions about 386bsd 0.1.

I'm considering getting it to run along side Dos 5.0 on my PC, but I'd
like a few opinions from other people first mostly regarding my hardware.

I've got a 486-33 with 256k cache, 4 megs ram, 130meg IDE hard drive
with and integrated floppy/hard/io card, along with a Soundblaster and
an ATI 2500etc/i fax modem as com 4. I've got a Trident 1meg SVGA card with
a 1024x758 NI Aamazing monitor, oh yeah, and a cheap mouse.

Is this a reasonable set up for running 386bsd?  I'd like to keep say,
40-60 megs for dos.
Any forseable problems with this setup?  

Other questions that the FAQ/poking around haven't seemed to answered:
Is there is gui interface?
What's the X-windows support like?
How stable is 0.1?  Will I have to become a Unix/C god to be able to run
it will out going nuts?

Any reccommended hardware upgrades?  More RAM is definately in my plans
(hell, Windoze can't run well with only 4 megs!).
What about HD space?

Also, any other things I should be aware of?  I'm going to mail away to
get the Tiny386bsd disk, hopefully soon, anybody know where else I could
get one? Ie. some program that will create a boot disk?
Any other comments that might be of help, ie, yeah the system's great
it has this new feature... blah blah   would be appreciated too.


Thanks in advance, 

	Dave Woods
	dwoods@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca