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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD on a cheap PC
Date: 19 Jan 1994 18:35:44 +1030
Organization: APANIX Public Access Unix, Australia, +61-8-373-5485 (3 lines)
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bivanovi@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (Boris Ivanovic) writes:
> I have a 386/25 with a 80 MB hard drive. It seems to me that this system
>is too lowsy to use 386BSD. Am I correct?
>I have the whole system, and unless I did something wrong, full expansion
>is 60MB...
I currently run FreeBSD on a 386SX-16 with 6MB RAM and 380MB of disk.
I run X (monocrome due to video card limitation), 24hr 38400 SLIP, 2-4
users locally, ftp server for others on APANA's SLIP network, a mud driver,
email, nntp news (nnmaster), my girlfriend's pascal and C assignments and
a few other little projects as they arise :)
It's slow, yes, but I haven't had a crash yet that couldn't be attributed to
misconfiguration.
I used to run 386bsd before FreeBSD on the same machine, but with only 80mb
of disk. I used 10mb swap (5mb on each 40mb drive for performance increase)
and had a cut down version of 386bsd (I pruned emacs, zoneinfo, games and
a few other things , it was bareable, I wasn't running X but I was running
everything else I mentioned above.
I must admin, it's nicer having more disk :) It'll be even nicer when
I ever get around to building 'The Dream Machine' to run FreeBSD on :)
Cheers
Leigh (Man with lots of patience)
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Leigh Hart
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