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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX? Message-ID: <1992Nov4.100317.25447@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Nov4.052106.29266@menudo.uh.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 10:03:17 GMT Lines: 52 W. Woody Jin (wjin@cs.uh.edu) wrote: : : Version numbers say it : Linux 0.98 <--> 386BSD 0.1 p58. I do not know about this. I'm using terry's collection of patches, which is arranged in a very convenient way of applying patches. You can reverse your patch. You can install selected patches. Linux should take a look at this package but terry has not made the source codes freely available. : : I have 386BSD 0.1p58 running (not properly). Still, 'ps -aux' does not : work properly (reports 'nlist ... so so..' and all the CPU usages are : 0 % ). Booting takes forever loop, fsck reporting some error messages : (So, I had to type ^C and did fsck manually - this was a new problem : after I did patches). I still cannot do 'mwrite' nor downloading or : uploading using modem (tip, rz, and sz as described in INSTALL.NOTES). : It just simply does not work (using given binaries, source codes, and : 58 patchkits - I think I have to ask around how other people are doing). I believe there are patches for all those problems. One of them is to use the tip from tiny bsd diskete. : : Installing DOS and 386BSD in a single IDE drive is an extreme headache, : which I don't want to suggest you to try unless you have lots of free time I don't think it is true any more. It is just a matter of doing it the right way. 386bsd has not got a partition editor for itself unlike minix fdisk, so must use norton utilites. The installation procedur had been posted. A new software also written running on dos, called ide_conf which can tell the native geometry of an IDE hard-disk so that the BIOS can be programmed with that geometry readings. : Not now, unless you are extremely intrigued (like me). : I would not recommend current 386BSD to an average UNIX user who is busy : doing his regular jobs. I have installed a lot of 386bsd systems with little problem. I've just got into problem with a new machine with 5Mbyte of RAM, but this machine fails to run even under DOS from Hard-disk(running himem), with parity check enabled. The cache is only for 4 Mbyte RAM. Surprisingly the same chipset OPTI 486 can run 386bsd with little problem. : But when you hear 386bsd is stable, I am sure that 386bsd will be THE unix : system on 386/486. And I am eagerly waiting for 386BSD 0.2. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet