Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:35:43 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Subject: Re: RC5-64 Contest Message-ID: <XFMail.990322203543.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221831120.6239-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On 23-Mar-99 Chris Dillon wrote: > On 22 Mar 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com> writes: >> > Hey, the distributed.net people got the stats back up today and Team >> > FreeBSD rose 3 to rank 32 and NetBSD Users dropped 1 to rank 28 on the >> > daily stats! >> >> Perhaps whoever "owns" freebsd@distributed.net should have that user >> join Team FreeBSD - then contributing to that team would be as simple >> as "make install clean" in /usr/ports/misc/rc5des. > > Err, I'm coming into this a bit late, but if someone has an easy way > to create a bootable floppy with the fxp and ed NIC drivers, a dhcp > client (optional, but highly preferred), and the rc5des client, I have > about 40 PII-266's and 30 P133s I could run it on for about 15 hours a > day, and 48 hours on weekends. Think that would bring Team FreeBSD up > a notch or two? :-) > > I could also just fudge and run a Win95 version of the client in the > background all day on even more workstations than that (the users > wouldn't be any wiser, so long as it only worked during idle time). First, statically compile rc5des. Then create a custom PicoBSD, and have it copy the rc5des program onto the floppy image while it is building the MFS tree. I used a similar trick to get a static dhcp client on a 3.0-CURRENT PicoBSD in January. > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) > ( http://www.freebsd.org ) */ --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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