From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD? Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 03:06:11 GMT
callahan@vax.oxford.ac.uk wrote:
: However, you said that it takes "days". I have installed SLS in about
We only need half an hour to install the basic distribution of 386bsd.
The latest dist.fs helps because we do not need to use nu or other partition
editor to put the A5 code.
: four hours a couple of times, counting the time taken to download the
: files from the net and then onto floppy (given a net-connected machine
: with a floppy drive, and mtools). It would have been shorter but I was
: (1) installing onto a *very* slow machine (386sx-16, slow hard disk)
: (2) making lots of hand cuts to install into a relatively small partition.
4 hours is virtually the whole day which we cannot afford.
We have installed 10 386bsd systems with full XFree86 and networking in
1.5 hours, and that includes giving it a host name, by far the most tedious
process.