From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 11 15:51:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA04498 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04461 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA17083 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:50:57 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA04541 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:50:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA21470 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:34:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606112234.AAA21470@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Don't hit.. To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:34:29 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606112204.WAA12499@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from Sean Kelly at "Jun 11, 96 04:04:12 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Sean Kelly wrote: > J"org> Ah! You mean the time while the kernel is read off the > J"org> floppy! That's about the longest period of time the > J"org> installation seems to take lately. :-) > > Okay, now you're just being mean! > > (Mommy, PPP's too slow. Can I have multiple T3's? :-) The above was off a CDROM in a well-equipped SCSI box, of course. ;) (Seriously, the quickest way to remove the BSD bootstrap again was to re-install the bindist, and ``dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0 count=100''. Installing the bindist took less time than finding some messy dos floppy that could do this. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)