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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!infonode!infonode.ingr.com!sboovara From: sboovara@ingr.com (Sridhar) Subject: general questions Message-ID: <1993Jul13.201245.12726@infonode.ingr.com> Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator) Organization: Intergraph Corporation Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 20:12:45 GMT Lines: 41 I decided to install 386bsd recently and wanted some questions answered before I did that. I have read the FAQ but apparently the answers to some of my questions weren't there. (1) Does the bindist in agate.berkeley.edu come with the patchkit applied? If not, where can I find a ftp location which has all the patches applied. (2) These binaries are compiled with gcc-1.37 (correct me if I am wrong). How do newer versions of gcc do? (Any increase in performance?) (3) How much disk space would a comfortable install of 386bsd and Xfree86 take? (I know the answer to this has been alluded to in the FAQ, but there seems to be no definite range) (4) The install process is slightly vague. Do I first get the bindist and put them in floppies (how many are needed?) and then use the "boot disk"? Does the boot disk partition the hard drive by itself? Can I control how much space that is allocated to each partition? (5) I want to be able to boot either from DOS or from unix at will. The faq says there are programs which enable me to do this. Where do I get them? (6) Given this scenario (that I want to be able to boot from either DOS or unix) what method of installing 386bsd is recommended? Please reply by e-mail. Thanks, Sridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Sridhar Boovaraghavan Loc: Bldg 24A, # 106G Water Resources Engineering Phone: (205) 730-8672 AEC Software Development FAX: (205) 730-8743 Intergraph Corporation Email: sboovara@ingr.com ______________________________________________________________________________