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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd 0.1 Patchkit 0.2.4 - Problems, Questions
Date: 11 Aug 1993 15:55:20 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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Message-ID: <24b4p8$14p@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <24avka$9ne@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>,
Dave Burgess <burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> wrote:
>In article <2497k2$qq2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>}In article <CBIpzw.6BM@csi.compuserve.com>,
>}M Foley <mfoley@csi.compuserve.com> wrote:
>}
>}>    How can I get it to finish? Is there a way to restart without having
>}>    to do the whole thing over? 
>}
>}Make will pick up where it's left off, so you can continue (leave it for
>}a week or so. :-) ) and it will keep going.
>}
>
>Come on Nate, it shouldn't take a week.  Heck, I got through mine in
>only 5 days.  Of course, it was on a 486/33 with a 40Meg swap space, but
>still.

>}>    I am running a 80386-25 w/8087, 8MB of
>}>    memory and whatever default swap space tiny bsd put on my drive - I

With 5MB of swap, a buggy groff, and a 386-25, it could very possibly take a 
week.  :-(



Nate

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