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- From: antoni@halcyon.com (Toni Moreno)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Help finding an up-to-date kernel
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.181623.23786@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:16:23 GMT
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- mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
- : In article <lje9qaINN4hs@news.bbn.com> blackett@bbn.com (Kent Blackett) writes:
- : >
- : >I'm really new to 386bsd, and I got to where I am by ftp'ing the distribution
- : >files at work, then ftp'ing them to a Mac at work, then writing DOS-format
- : >floppies on the Mac, then taking the floppies home to the PC.
- : >
- :
- : Here's an alternative you can consider. (I did this for my system.)
- :
- : Carry the whole machine in to work and "borrow" an IP address for long
- : enough to ftp in the distribution. You need an ethernet board, of course,
- : but if you can borrow one of them too, you're in good shape.
- :
- : The install disk comes with the ftp client, which you can use to get
- : the distribution over the net. Be warned-- the kernel on the install
- : disk has some debugging left on in the network code, so it will be
- : pretty slow to do the transfer. It took me several hours to get the
- : whole bin01, src01, and etc01 distributions over, but I wasn't paying
- : attention to it either, so I don't know how long it was waiting for me.
- : Mostly, I would look at it once in a while and and see
- : "startstartstartstartstartstartstart" moving across the screen.
- :
- : It happens that there was an ethernet board I could borrow, but before I
- : knew that would be the case, I considered buying one for occasions like
- : this. I don't have my tape drive yet, though, so it would be more cost
- : effective for me than it would be for you.
- :
- : Good luck,
- :
- : Mark.
-
- The problem I've found is that I have a 386DX-33 with an ethernet board,
- an IP address for me ... but what I haven't is knowing of how to set up
- ftp client. I mean how to define all IP addresses of the others'
- machines and so...
-
- Happy new year!
-
- Toni Moreno
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