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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: Questions about 386bsd - possible new user
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In article <C5C6vL.J6I@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> dwoods@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Lord of Morgul) writes:
>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?  

	Disk space.  You're going to need more disk space if you want
to use any packages with the system.

	I recommend to all new UNIX users at school here that they
devote at least 150MB of space to 386bsd.  that gives a reasonable
set up for BSD, X and some packages...

>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?

	Get another 200MB.

>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?

	ftp agate.berkeley.edu.  It's got all the information you need
in /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/INSTALL.NOTES, as well as all the distribution
files.


	ToodlepiP!
	marc 'em.
-- 
  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill P.O.W Camp         "Oh crap---It's not
  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA             random enough"
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