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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freebsd loading time Date: 10 Jul 1996 20:29:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4s13qc$avo@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <MPLANET.31e29d09mali01989684@news> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mali01@dakota.isd77.k12.mn.us (Muhammad A. Ali) wrote: > I am going to install freebsd later, I just want to know how long does it > take to load onto your system, I am a owner of a system with 8MB of > memory and it has a 486-66mhz processor. This depends, mostly on the speed of your peripherals (and on the installation medium), as well as on the size of your installation. I've got a minimal installation completed in less than 5 minutes, though this was on a faster machine than yours (and with perhaps much faster peripherals). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)