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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: Is runnning BSD feasible?? Message-ID: <1992Aug27.084704.10129@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <1992Aug26.075926.12149@cosy.sbg.ac.at> <kilroy.714836643@mik.uky.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:47:04 GMT Lines: 29 kilroy@mik.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy) writes: >Hi all, > Sorry, I dont know if this is a FAQ so please bear with me... > I was wondering if running BSD on a 486 with 8 meg of ram on a > pc in my home is feasible(ie. not too many bugs). I have heard > mixed reviews about the bugginess of BSD. I would be doing simple > things such as running X-windows, writting small programs for Now is the time for X to become simple :-) :-) Sorry, I couldn't resist that one. But serious: I installed the base system on a 486/25 Mhz with 16MB of RAM (will increase swap space after installing the kernel source), the 1542B controller in about two hours (from floppy). That did include the copying of the 10 Floppies to harddisk on another PC (via Ethernet) and then to the floppies. This took about half an hour. Before that, I spent one hour to figure out that the WD ethernet adaptor which is in this system running 386BSD had a hardware problem (checksum error in address ROM) but was detected by 386BSD. So, all in all the real installation took about one hour and it worked after the first try. Even with a 25 MB MS-DOS partition. Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt