From: peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller)
Subject: Re:Greetings and Salutations oh BSD users!
Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:58:07 GMT

..
>My questions are as follows:
>	I'm a dos/os/2 user (translation:My drive is very full), I
>	love unix (i'm a hacker, can you tell? =) and would love to
>	have it on my 486 (who cares if I have to buy another hard
>	drive (my 210 is really really full), can anyone spare
>	$300?) (I say 486 because I hope that will take care of any
>	questions about 'is my computer able to run it')). So I
>	would like to know:
>		1.How much disk space does it take?
>		2.How easy/difficult is it to install?
>		3.How much 'other' resources does it need?
>		4.Now that i have it? wWHAT THE HELL DO I DO W/IT?!?
>		 (NOTE:The response "anything you damn well please"
>		       is not to be considered a legit one =) 

1. That depends on what you're going to install!
Binary Distribution
     A collection of high-density MS-DOS  floppy  disks	(10
     3.5-inch  floppies	or  12 5.25-inch floppies), also in
     compressed multi-volume CPIO form, containing the	exe-
     cutable,  data,  and  documentation  files of a working
     386BSD  system,  including	C  and	C++  compilers	and
     libraries.	When	extracted, the files occupy approxi-
     mately 30 MBytes of disk space. Note that	at  least  5
     MBytes  of	swap  space,  plus  an operating reserve of
     another 10% of the total accumulated  disk	space	men-
     tioned  should be considered as minimum to operate this
     system.  An additional 14 MBytes is necessary  to	hold
     the  distribution	prior  to  extraction.	While 386BSD
     does not require MS-DOS for operation, MS-DOS  floppies
     are used to simplify distribution of the release.

Source Distribution
     A collection of high-density MS-DOS  floppy  disks	(11
     3.5-inch floppies or 13 5.25-inch floppies), which is a
     multi-volume compressed  CPIO  format  archive  of	the
     source  language  files with which to recreate the sys-
     tem.  When extracted, the files  consume  approximately
     37	MBytes of space. In addition, at least 25 MBytes of
     space is taken up by  the	binary	files  created	when
     recompiling.   Please note that an additional 20 MBytes
     is necessary to hold the  interim	distribution  to  be
     loaded  prior  to	release	extraction.   As  mentioned
     above, 386BSD does not require MS-DOS for operation  --
     MS-DOS  floppies  are  used to simplify distribution of
     the release.

Additional User Software Distribution
     A collection of high-density  MSDOS  floppy  disks	(17
     3.5-inch  floppies	or 20 5.25-inch floppies), again in
     compressed multi-volume CPIO format, containing various
     public software packages that have been integrated into
     386BSD, and are present both in source  and  binary  in
     this  distribution	set. When extracted, the files con-
     sume approximately 51 MBytes  of  space.  In  addition,
     other files not necessary for system operation but con-
     venient for use with the system  are  present  in	this
     set.  This distribution set is the fastest growing por-
     tion of 386BSD, and represents a considerable amount of
     work done by many dedicated contributors to 386BSD.

2. Its easy, as long as you use the install-script from the
	boot-disk.
	If you want several partitions like swap on an extra
	one, small root-partition etc. than it'll take you
	some time. (In fact you'll have to make it by hand!)

3. Other resources ?? Well, you got an 486 that should do it!

4.      Among the many new features of 386BSD:

*    New "Tiny 386BSD" System Installation Floppy

*    Simplified installation procedures.

*    386BSD partitioning for use on an MS-DOS system.

*    Compressed,    multivolume	CPIO     dump     format
     binary/source/other  distribution	sets on MS-DOS flop-
     pies.

*    387 emulation.

*    SCSI support.

*    CD-ROM support.

*    NFS, TCP/IP and full networking.

*    New 386BSD "Fix-It" System Maintenance Floppy.

*    New "Additional User Software" MS-DOS floppy dump.

	In fact with 386bsd you'll have a full BSD-UNIX-SYSTEM.
	In combination with Xfree (X for 386) it makes you feel
	like on a workstation!

I hope I've been some help for you!

- Peter 8^}
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