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Date:      Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:44:08 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, FreeBSD Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: `time make buildworld'
Message-ID:  <39E22008.5AFEADA@urx.com>
References:  <20001009141136.A16050@futuresouth.com>  <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200010080002.e9802ma83795@nospam.hiwaay.net> <200010091928.NAA14035@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <20001009141136.A16050@futuresouth.com> "Matthew D. Fuller" writes:
> : I have a 386 SX/20 with 4 megs running a fairly recent (~8 month old)
> : 2.1-STABLE.  Last buildworld I did on it (over nfs to my workstation)
> : took approx. 11 days IIRC.  I wouldn't even consider doing a buildworld
> : on it (80 meg drive...  yum.)
> 
> Just go and try to buy a 80MB hard drive these days.  It is nearly
> impossible.  Unless you want flash :-)

I was reading info on Maxtor's size limiting option because of the
rash of 20+GB drives that FreeBSD thought were 2GB'ers. It turns out
that a single platter is now 15GB.

Kent

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