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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usceast!usceast!not-for-mail From: pritchet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Ron Pritchett) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Newbie needs setup advice Date: 29 Jan 1994 21:47:38 -0500 Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science Lines: 52 Message-ID: <2if74a$jir@dogwood.cs.scarolina.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dogwood.cs.scarolina.edu I need some advice on Lunix & (Free/386)BSD. Here's my hardware: AST 486/33DX 12MB 120MB IDE HD AHA 1520 supporting a Toshiba 3401 CDROM 3COM 503 16/TP PAS 16 I want to buy a new 340 MB HD & I'd prefer to get SCSI. I'm sure of the support of the 1520 in Linux & BSD, However. I guess that's the 1st question then: 1) Can I go ahead & get a 340 SCSI HD or do I get it in IDE? I want to put OS/2,DOS,Linux, & Free/386BSD on the system. I only want 1 partition visible @ at time. I had planned on using OS/2's boot manager to accomplish this. 2) How would I set these partitions up on the new drive? I'd keep the IDE as HPFS for OS/2, but I was gonna give 150MB to each Linux & BSD. This would leave me 40MB for DOS. I need each of these platforms to "talk" to my other machine running OS/2. I suppose TCP/IP & NFS will do the trick but I need to keep KPS rates up. LAN Server for OS/2 gives me 235K/S on transfers to/from the network drive. IBM's NFS (v1.2.1) gave me miserable perfomance (I'd "eyeball" it at about 1/4th the speen of LAN server). 3) How good is NFS perfomance for Linux & BSD? I want each platform on the client machine (except for DOS which would just be for playing games) to have/support a ANSI C++ compiler & X-Windows (well, not OS/2 since that's a ways down the road). I'm not interested in a fancy setup. I just want to be able to write & test C++ pgms for portability across OSs. I also want to get into some X programming later in the year. I'd like evertything I write to be able to run on the DEC 2100s (running Ultrix) @ school. Suggestions welcome! +============================================================================+ | "They say I'm lazy, but it takes all my time... | | Life's been good to me so far!" -Joe Walsh | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Ron Pritchett Internet: pritchet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu | | * Team OS/2 * FidoNet: Ron Pritchett (1:376/74.0) | | | | <<Finger for PGP Public Key>> | +============================================================================+