Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 13:56:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ted Spradley <tsprad@spradley.tmi.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (belated :-) make aout-to-elf success story Message-ID: <199809062056.NAA09983@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 15:16:36 CDT." <199809062016.PAA16697@set.spradley.tmi.net>
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> Here's one for the Worldstone record books: 69 hours. Not quite fair > because the first interactive question came up over night, so I don't > know how long it waited for me to hit enter. Nowhere near a record; many people with 386sx systems have clocked a week or more. > Amd386DX-40 with (overclocked) Intel 387DX-33, 8M bytes main memory, 128K > cache, Adaptec 1542B, /, /usr, /var on a Micropolis 1588, /usr/src and > /usr/obj on a Seagate Hawk2. > > This was an upgrade from a fresh install of 2.2.5-Release. I had to > install the old version because because the machine has a real Novell > NE2000 that can't be configured to I/O address 0x280, and the newer boot > floppies don't have room for ed1. It's not a case of "don't have room", but "don't need". If the parameters are wrong, you tweak them with userconfig (like it says if you bother to read the prompt screen when the install disk starts). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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