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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: help in starting up Message-ID: <Mar.27.16.40.45.1993.17190@athos.rutgers.edu> Date: 27 Mar 93 21:40:46 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 35 I'm primarily a Linux user, however now and then I like to check the status of 386BSD, to see if it's ready for serious use. (While Linux is fine for my use at home, I have a feeling that BSD would be better for use in the computer science dept, because of its more mature networking. However I am unwilling to put faculty on an operating system that I can't make work for myself.) The primary problem has been (and continues to be) that I want to load the software via SLIP, and so far the serial driver doesn't seem to be able to do high speed input. (Either that or there's some setup that I don't know about.) I recently brought over the kernel supplied in the Xfree86 distribution, which seems to be patchkit 2. It's a lot better than the original kernel, but I still get large numbers of silo overflows, and FTP's are frustratingly slow. I've been assuming that the slow speed is because of dropped characters. However I noticed comments here implying that unless I did something special, I'd end up with both a small MTU and no header compression. That would certainly slow things down. Perhaps someone could suggest a way to fix one or the other of these problems (binaries -- until I get reliable SLIP support, I can't get enough of the system over to find source usable). An alternative would be to load the data on Linux, and then transfer it to 386BSD. I was hoping to do this by putting it into the MSDOS file partition. However I can't find any way to mount an MSDOS partition, nor to set things up so that mread will read from it. (I need to be able to read and write to MSDOS anyway, since that's the only way I have to do backups. I've got a tape drive on the floppy controller. At the moment only DOS seems to know how to use it. I back up Linux by writing a compressed backup to the MSDOS disk, and then backing up from MSDOS. I'm willing to do this for BSD as well.) Can anyone suggest a place I can get a kernel binary that is reliable at 19200, and/or how to set things up to read/write from an MSDOS partition? It would be nice if the kernel had whatever changes are needed to run X.