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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!sci34hub!gary
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Adding Swapspace ??
Message-ID: <1992Oct19.200346.28211@sci34hub.sci.com>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
References: <1992Oct16.201806.21519@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <Bw8Mw5.IFC@pix.com> <1992Oct18.082017.22382@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Oct18.182528.27905@tfs.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 20:03:46 GMT
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In article <1992Oct18.182528.27905@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
>Firstly:
>Where is everybody?

Don't know. I'm still reading....

>has:
>1/ everybody got 386bsd running flawlessly?

I haven't, but I'm still working on it. Only having one 68MB drive and no
built-in support for a second drive (so I could use that 36MB bookend...)
impedes things a little. My setup (386sx/4MB/16MHz) likes to reboot after
failing to lock the score file in rogue. Oddly enough, when it comes back
up, fsck doesn't get run--it thinks the filesystem is clean.

Taylor uucp doesn't get past creating the Makefile, which I attribute to
me not having swap space set up yet. (Errors about not cleaning memory
pages, sometimes prefixed with date/time.)

>2/ everybody given up on 386bsd and gone to linux?

No. I wanted something to play with that included networking, which linux 
doesn't have, yet.

>3/ everybody gon off to play with NT?

No. I've been promised an eval copy of SysVr4.2, or a Consensys 4.0 package
if the 4.2 doesn't come through, so I may not worry too much about 386bsd
anyway. I'd still like to have it up, so I can familiarize myself with
the structure and admin practices unique to BSD. There's a lot of it out
there, and I'm pretty weak in that area.


-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"...I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down, then I
thought 'One of us is in real trouble'." Davey Allison, re: a 150MPH crash