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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!destroyer!gumby!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!serval!hlu From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: Catch What They're Saying About Us... Message-ID: <1992Sep23.201936.24063@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University References: <19oe23INNqh0@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep23.043825.13248@serval.net.wsu.edu> <19pqmpINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 20:19:36 GMT Lines: 26 In article <19pqmpINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net>, bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: |> In article <1992Sep23.043825.13248@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes: |> > I really want to try 386bsd on my 386sx-16 with 4MB RAM. I was wondering if |> > I could install 386bsd kernel source and compiler on a 14MB partition on my |> > HD. That is all I can afford for now. I did the same for Linux and was very |> > impressed by it. I want to see what 386bsd looks like on my PC. Does anyone |> > have experiences with this configuration? |> |> I don't think your RAM is the limiting factor, but the HD space available - |> there's eleven 5.25'' floppies of *compressed* stuff and I doubt very much |> this'll fit on 14 megs. |> |> BTW I have seen 386bsd + X11R5 (sp ?) with kernel sources up and running on a |> 16 MHz 8Mb RAM 80-Meg HD and ET-3000 based VGA |> As a matter of fact, 386bsd was my first choice. I have been following it very closely since the very beginning. I was disappointed when I found out my HD is too small for 386bsd. That was one of the reason I tried Linux. I'd like to have 386bsd on my disk. Maybe I can even contribute something to it. But I only get that small HD. I wamt a real OS with some spaces for source code on it. Until I can try it out with 14MB, I have to wait. No flames, please. H.J.