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From: Brian Patrick Dunphy <bd29+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: 2 Hard Drives
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 04:15:53 -0500
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Hello,
I am a newbie, as in a few hours newbie and have some questions before I
install 386BSD.
1st question. I have 2 hard drive, one that I intend to keep for msdos
and the 2nd that I'm going to have strictly for 386BSD. Both are IDE
drives. So is it possible to boot on either one fairly easy w/o using
floppies? If so how? ie. what drive is master, which is slave. How do
I handle the install, etc...? Please give me lots of details, since i am
rather new at this.
2nd question. How much RAM does it take to run X-Windows? Also, does
it support Diamond's Stealth w/ VRAM (the older one)?
3rd question. How stable does this version of UNIX tend to be?
4th question. Is it possible to download the bin files to my DOS drive
and "copy" the binaries to the BSD drive?
Thanks for any help you can give me. Please send all responses to my account.
-Brian
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