From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD? Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 18:48:36 GMT
eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
> 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.
> --
> Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
> Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
> Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
Not counting the ftp time, it took me about 1/2 an hour to install Linux
and LILO. Admittedly, I'm not using X (some extra disks), and I still
have to re-configure my kernel to use my 3c503 ethernet card, but that
would be a one-time investment of time if I wanted to install on many
machines.
-- Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu) "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." -- A. Einstein