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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Success story! Message-ID: <D44ow3.824@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (Internet Direct Admin) Organization: the briney, briney deep Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 05:07:14 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 48 In the interest of lightening the recent content of this newsgroup, I thought I'd tell everyone about my exploits last week. I finally bit the bullet and sold most of my old 386/40. It was a great little system, 8Mb RAM, 1Mb TVGA 8900, 340Mb + 420Mb disks, 28.8K V.FC modem, and running FreeBSD 2.0, OS/2 2.1, and DOS+Win. Based on the idea that memory and monitor are what is most important, I swung for a DX2/66 VLB board from Genoa, a VLB IDE controller, an S3 805 w/1Mb, and 16Mb RAM. And a CTX 1765 17" monitor. Wow! I kept the 420Mb drive (a WD Caviar), my Mitsumi CD-ROM, Zoom modem, and Addtron NE2000 clone ethernet card. I put all these parts together, hit the swtich, and my new, improved Obie said "kernel not configured for i486." Oh great. Wait, don't I have a generic kernel on here... Success! Kernel rebuilds now only take 8-9 minutes, instead of 45-65! X starts in 8-10 seconds, instead of two minutes. xf86configure worked the first time, giving me rock-solid, fast 1024x768x256. I can deal with that. (More pixels to follow later). So, I'm thinking, Obie needs a little buddy to talk to here. Someone I can stick the modem in, to be a router. One of my cohorts at work wants to unload an SX16 with 100Mb disk, and I have 4Mb of simms left over from the previous Obie, so 'gateway' is born. Poke in YANE2K (that's Yet Another NE2000 clone), boot the floopy, ftp the files from /cdrom on Obie, and voila! Instant network! Yes, I am now one of those techno-weenies with their own TCP/IP network at home, even have my own class C address. Domain registration won't happen 'til next month, mostly because my ISP wants $50 for the service, and I'm still trying to talk him out of it. ;^) All of this running on 2.0-R from the CD-ROM. No crashes anywhere. Cool, eh? Jordan and the rest of the gang, if you're in SLC, look me up. I'll buy you one of whatever you want. I'll even take you sailing on the Great Salt Lake, a most unique experience. ;^) Kudos. Wes Peters. P.S. YANE2K came from DataComm Warehouse, 800.328.2261. I can't say enough good about them. I ordered the card at 7:30 pm MST Monday, and it was waiting for me at work at 9:00 am MST the next morning! The cards work, if not fast, and cost $34.95 for the jumperless with one interface, or $33.95 for the jumperful. Good service, good prices.