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From: javaman@halcyon.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Info needed
Date: 7 Jan 1996 23:37:18 GMT
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Greetings,
I have installed 2.1 on a system and would like share some experiences and
hopefully get some response.
System: i486, 20 meg ram, 1st HD 540, 2nd HD 240.
1st HD: 1 partition 340 dos
2 partition 177 FreeBSD (25 - /, 132 /usr, 20 swap)
2nd HD: Linux 100%
1) During the first install, I had booteasy installed on MBR of HD 1,
after a smooth install, I tried to boot linux using booteasy.
Problem 1: Linux would not boot, then the partition table of
HD 1 was gone. No Dos or FreeBSD partition.
(I had a backup of the partition table thanks to
LILO )
Comments ?
2nd install I used LILO to boot FreeBSD, I am up and running.
2) I installed xcoral and xview and numerous other packages but xcoral
core dump with floating point exception when I tried to check the version.
xview core dumped for the same reason when I brought up the menu.
Is this common ?
3) I read that FreeBSD uses alot of paging space, under X I had about 6
xterms, 2 Mosaic windows, and about 5 other clients running ( top showed
50 processes) when I ran out of VM. I had 39 meg total real + page.
Is this unusual? Do I need more paging space? Is the 2 x phyisical ram
enough?
I am trying to give FreeBSD a fair assesment, so any comments to the above
would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
javaman@halcyon.com