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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!news.Brown.EDU!noc.near.net!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!noao!rstevens From: rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens) Subject: Re: Loading 386bsd via slip? Message-ID: <1992Sep7.215039.6655@noao.edu> Sender: news@noao.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: gemini.tuc.noao.edu Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA References: <2AAAC655.6B7B@deneva.sdd.trw.com> <Sep.7.14.04.24.1992.270@athos.rutgers.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:50:39 GMT Lines: 12 >I got continuous silo overflows under 386BSD (at 9600 bps using a 33 >MHz 486). I ended up downloading the files under Linux and writing >floppies! I believe you could use tip to dial the modem and get >things started, but if my experience is typical (there are reports >saying similar things), SLIP isn't quite ready yet. I loaded BSD/386 using slip because I had a laptop without an Ethernet card, and I didn't want to take the time to write/read floppies. There were continual silo overflows, but eventually it gets through. It took me one hour and 45 minutes to load root, and another ~15 hours to load /usr. Rich Stevens (rstevesns@noao.edu)