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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: dstrout@clark.net (Dave Strout) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Success Story w/ FreeBSD 2.1.0 Date: 28 Oct 1995 01:57:21 GMT Organization: ...is sought after more often than it is attained Lines: 28 Message-ID: <46s2m1$4va@clarknet.clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] A successful installation of 2.1.0 for those who are keeping track. Hardware: No-name MB with AMI bios AMD 486DX4-100 16 MB Ram, 256K cache Adaptec 2842 VL SCSI card Hercules Diamond Pro (ET-4000 based) video card Fujitsu 507MB HD Iomega SCSI Zip Drive I had had Win95 on the Fujitsu, so I defregged & used FIPS to get a 77MB partition on the internal drive. That became / (45MB) and swap (32MB). Then a Zip disk became /var (30MB) and /usr (65MB). FTP'd the bin dist- ribution to the DOS partition, did an "Install from DOS PArtiton", and I'm off to the races. Am now using FTP to install man pages and the like. Hats off the the FreeBSD team. It took far less time to install FreeBSD than Solaris 2.4 for x86, and it's a better product! dave. -- Dave Strout dstrout@clark.net "If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car" -- Meatloaf