oury@techbook.com (David Oury) (11/28/90)
Greetings,
I'm interested in using Mach on a `386 laptop and have
a few questions about how and when this would be possible.
1> What are the space requirements for a stand alone
development system with but one or two users?
2> When might the binaries, or source, be available?
3> I am assuming that a large HD hooked up via the
serial or parallel ports would suffice to hold
the remainder of Mach, and could be dismounted
when not needed. Does this make sense?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. David Oury.
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In article <1990Nov27.232900.14393@techbook.com> oury@techbook.com (David Oury) writes: > >Greetings, > I'm interested in using Mach on a `386 laptop and have >a few questions about how and when this would be possible. It is! I'm sending this message from my home Toshiba T5200/100 running Mach 2.5p, telneted to my office machine over a 100kbps packet-radio wireless link using the Telesystem ARLAN 450 radio interface card!!! >1> What are the space requirements for a stand alone > development system with but one or two users? For a binary-only distribution (no kernel sources), but with X11R4 installed, I have about 20M free on my 100M internal disk. Here's the output of df: teriyaki$ df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/hd0a 95747 67564 18608 78% / My home directory has about 2M of stuff, and /etc/vm/swapfile is about 6M. >2> When might the binaries, or source, be available? Mach is a source-only distribution from CMU. I forget what licencing agreements you need, but they'll send you a pair of boot floppies which you can use to SUP the sources over from CMU and compile them on your system. The boot diskettes you get only support the 3c501 ethernet controller, although the kernel has support for the wd8003e and the PC586 controllers as well. >3> I am assuming that a large HD hooked up via the > serial or parallel ports would suffice to hold A disk hooked up through the serial or the parallel port?????? Is this a joke? On the T5200 you can hook up an external floppy through the parallel port (you flip a switch, and it no longer is a parallel port). TO hook up an external disk, you need an expansion chassis. > the remainder of Mach, and could be dismounted > when not needed. Does this make sense? Or you can use NFS if you have a Sun NFS source licence. Your best bet is to dedicate a standard 386 clone with a large (>300M) disk to be your distribution machine, compile sources there, and then move over the binaries you need to your laptops. >Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. >Thanks. David Oury. >-- >oury@techbook.COM ...!{tektronix!nosun,uunet}techbook!oury >Public Access UNIX at (503) 644-8135 (1200/2400) Voice: +1 503 646-8257 >Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks >Disclaimer: Just me talking, noone else. /ji In-Real-Life: John "Heldenprogrammer" Ioannidis E-Mail-To: ji@cs.columbia.edu V-Mail-To: +1 212 854 8120 P-Mail-To: 450 Computer Science \n Columbia University \n New York, NY 10027