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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1651 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:52:03 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:26699 comp.unix.bsd:11410 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!tai50080 From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD? Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 18:48:36 GMT Message-ID: <C2I6x0.LzD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1993Feb13.030204.11977@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1993Feb15.030611.18966@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Reply-To: tinsel@uiuc.edu Originator: tai50080@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Organization: Masticating Illini, Urbana Illinois Lines: 34 eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: > callahan@vax.oxford.ac.uk wrote: > : However, you said that it takes "days". I have installed SLS in about > We only need half an hour to install the basic distribution of 386bsd. > The latest dist.fs helps because we do not need to use nu or other partition > editor to put the A5 code. > : four hours a couple of times, counting the time taken to download the > : files from the net and then onto floppy (given a net-connected machine > : with a floppy drive, and mtools). It would have been shorter but I was > : (1) installing onto a *very* slow machine (386sx-16, slow hard disk) > : (2) making lots of hand cuts to install into a relatively small partition. > 4 hours is virtually the whole day which we cannot afford. > We have installed 10 386bsd systems with full XFree86 and networking in > 1.5 hours, and that includes giving it a host name, by far the most tedious > process. > -- > Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, > Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. > Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg > Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet Not counting the ftp time, it took me about 1/2 an hour to install Linux and LILO. Admittedly, I'm not using X (some extra disks), and I still have to re-configure my kernel to use my 3c503 ethernet card, but that would be a one-time investment of time if I wanted to install on many machines. -- Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu) "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." -- A. Einstein