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From: peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller)
Subject: Re:Greetings and Salutations oh BSD users!
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:58:07 GMT
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>My questions are as follows:
> I'm a dos/os/2 user (translation:My drive is very full), I
> love unix (i'm a hacker, can you tell? =) and would love to
> have it on my 486 (who cares if I have to buy another hard
> drive (my 210 is really really full), can anyone spare
> $300?) (I say 486 because I hope that will take care of any
> questions about 'is my computer able to run it')). So I
> would like to know:
> 1.How much disk space does it take?
> 2.How easy/difficult is it to install?
> 3.How much 'other' resources does it need?
> 4.Now that i have it? wWHAT THE HELL DO I DO W/IT?!?
> (NOTE:The response "anything you damn well please"
> is not to be considered a legit one =)
1. That depends on what you're going to install!
Binary Distribution
A collection of high-density MS-DOS floppy disks (10
3.5-inch floppies or 12 5.25-inch floppies), also in
compressed multi-volume CPIO form, containing the exe-
cutable, data, and documentation files of a working
386BSD system, including C and C++ compilers and
libraries. When extracted, the files occupy approxi-
mately 30 MBytes of disk space. Note that at least 5
MBytes of swap space, plus an operating reserve of
another 10% of the total accumulated disk space men-
tioned should be considered as minimum to operate this
system. An additional 14 MBytes is necessary to hold
the distribution prior to extraction. While 386BSD
does not require MS-DOS for operation, MS-DOS floppies
are used to simplify distribution of the release.
Source Distribution
A collection of high-density MS-DOS floppy disks (11
3.5-inch floppies or 13 5.25-inch floppies), which is a
multi-volume compressed CPIO format archive of the
source language files with which to recreate the sys-
tem. When extracted, the files consume approximately
37 MBytes of space. In addition, at least 25 MBytes of
space is taken up by the binary files created when
recompiling. Please note that an additional 20 MBytes
is necessary to hold the interim distribution to be
loaded prior to release extraction. As mentioned
above, 386BSD does not require MS-DOS for operation --
MS-DOS floppies are used to simplify distribution of
the release.
Additional User Software Distribution
A collection of high-density MSDOS floppy disks (17
3.5-inch floppies or 20 5.25-inch floppies), again in
compressed multi-volume CPIO format, containing various
public software packages that have been integrated into
386BSD, and are present both in source and binary in
this distribution set. When extracted, the files con-
sume approximately 51 MBytes of space. In addition,
other files not necessary for system operation but con-
venient for use with the system are present in this
set. This distribution set is the fastest growing por-
tion of 386BSD, and represents a considerable amount of
work done by many dedicated contributors to 386BSD.
2. Its easy, as long as you use the install-script from the
boot-disk.
If you want several partitions like swap on an extra
one, small root-partition etc. than it'll take you
some time. (In fact you'll have to make it by hand!)
3. Other resources ?? Well, you got an 486 that should do it!
4. Among the many new features of 386BSD:
* New "Tiny 386BSD" System Installation Floppy
* Simplified installation procedures.
* 386BSD partitioning for use on an MS-DOS system.
* Compressed, multivolume CPIO dump format
binary/source/other distribution sets on MS-DOS flop-
pies.
* 387 emulation.
* SCSI support.
* CD-ROM support.
* NFS, TCP/IP and full networking.
* New 386BSD "Fix-It" System Maintenance Floppy.
* New "Additional User Software" MS-DOS floppy dump.
In fact with 386bsd you'll have a full BSD-UNIX-SYSTEM.
In combination with Xfree (X for 386) it makes you feel
like on a workstation!
I hope I've been some help for you!
- Peter 8^}
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