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From: jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: A host of freebsd bugs
Date: 21 Jan 1995 06:58:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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*Hobbit* (hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us) wrote:
: Running into all of these within the first few hours of attempting to
: install FreeBSD 2.0-950112-SNAP does *not* give me a very good impression.
: I've bloodied my forehead against a variety of unix install scripts over
: the years, but this one especially pissed me off. And I *did* read a whole
: mess of FAQage before going anywhere near the boot disk.
Just as an alter opinion:
Machine: pentium 66 (intel) Version 10 BIOS
8MB memory
NCR PCI SCSI controller (80x25)
1GB Fast SCSI-2 (two partitions DOS=500, BSD=500)
DEC RRD42 SCSI CDROM
Tseng Labs ET4000 (and later S3 964)
DEC ether card
In short all "bleeding edge" stuff you expect to
break.
I ordered the Walnut Creek CD, ran sysinstall
had a few minor probs with things not being
quite as doco said but basically had everything
installed, new kernel built, boot easy installed
and running in under an hour including mount/read/write
dos partition and installing zsh vtwm.
Got a piece of paper worked thru the XF86COnfig example
and had X working in less than 30 minutes.
Installed kermit, tcl/tk, Xview and a few others
no probs.
System has been running continuously either BSD
or Windoze since Jan 5 with no failures or barfs
in FreeBSD (and lots in Windoze, but I expect that).
In short: well done guys!!
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