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From: pritchet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Ron Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Newbie needs setup advice
Date: 29 Jan 1994 21:47:38 -0500
Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science
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Message-ID: <2if74a$jir@dogwood.cs.scarolina.edu>
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I need some advice on Lunix & (Free/386)BSD.

Here's my hardware:
AST 486/33DX 12MB
120MB IDE HD
AHA 1520 supporting a Toshiba 3401 CDROM
3COM 503 16/TP
PAS 16

I want to buy a new 340 MB HD & I'd prefer to get SCSI. I'm sure of the
support of the 1520 in Linux & BSD, However. I guess that's the 1st
question then:

1) Can I go ahead & get a 340 SCSI HD or do I get it in IDE?

I want to put OS/2,DOS,Linux, & Free/386BSD on the system. I only want 1
partition visible @ at time. I had planned on using OS/2's boot manager
to accomplish this.

2) How would I set these partitions up on the new drive?

I'd keep the IDE as HPFS for OS/2, but I was gonna give 150MB to each
Linux & BSD. This would leave me 40MB for DOS.

I need each of these platforms to "talk" to my other machine
running OS/2. I suppose TCP/IP & NFS will do the trick but I need to
keep KPS rates up. LAN Server for OS/2 gives me 235K/S on transfers
to/from the network drive. IBM's NFS (v1.2.1) gave me miserable
perfomance (I'd "eyeball" it at about 1/4th the speen of LAN server).

3) How good is NFS perfomance for Linux & BSD?

I want each platform on the client machine (except for DOS which would
just be for playing games) to have/support a ANSI C++ compiler &
X-Windows (well, not OS/2 since that's a ways down the road). I'm not
interested in a fancy setup. I just want to be able to write & test C++
pgms for portability across OSs. I also want to get into some X
programming later in the year. I'd like evertything I write to be able
to run on the DEC 2100s (running Ultrix) @ school. Suggestions welcome!



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