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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!ibmpcug!ibmpcug!jshark!joe From: joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey) Subject: Re: A few words about BSDI Organization: Individual Network (UK) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 21:48:03 GMT Message-ID: <CCyCK4.3KF@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> Keywords: BSDI review References: <kaleb.747151750@kanga.x.org> <CCuo34.5Gy@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> <hastyCCy1EG.Azy@netcom.com> Lines: 35 In article <hastyCCy1EG.Azy@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >It takes less than a 1/2 hour to install NetBSD-0.8 and less if you are >intalling the OS without the sources. This is about as meaningless as J.Monroy's post, I think. Unless you're talking about how long it takes to "dd" a few floppies onto a hd? >will be updating the binaries from a single source. If not just drop in >the entire distribution in a 1/2 hour. To install XFree86 just add another >15 minutes and you are up and running. 50 - 100 floppies in a bit more than 1/2 hour ;) >If you have fast scsi controller and scsi disk drives in a 486DX50 or >faster cpu your installation will be much quicker. The folks over at sun-lamp >are claiming 1.4MB/sec disk transfer and we know that David Greeman's >new ethernet driver can operate nearly at ethernet speed. It would >not surprise me to hear someone installing the entire distribution >including XFree86 under 20 minutes. ... And with a FDDI link, that's only 2 mins ;) Meaningless, but fast! So: How long does it take to install *BDS/BSD* *and* get a working system? > Amancio joe. -- Joe Sharkey joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk ...!uunet!ibmpcug!jshark!joe 150 Hatfield Rd, St Albans, Herts AL1 4JA, UK Got a real domain name (+44) 727 838662 Mail/News Feeds (v32/v32bis): info@inet-uk.co.uk