NetBSD and old hardware curiosity

[Jeffrey Armstrong]

I installed NetBSD 2.0_RC3 on my VAXstation 3100 M38.  The install was 
quick and easy since it was from ISO, but compiling was dog -slow. I 
installed the NetBSD pkgsrc collection and started the Samba install.  I 
wanted the vax to act as a fileserver for the house.  Well, the pkgsrc 
system installs everything by compiling from source.  Three days after 
initiating the install (almost exactly to the hour), Samba was reported as 
installed.  Now Samba is not a particularly large package, but it's 
biggish, I suppose.  I can't imagine compiling the kernel or, heaven 
forbid, a desktop like KDE.

BTW, the vax, while it does take a bit to respond to requests fom other 
computers, made a fantastic and highly stable file server.  I think the 
little thing had an uptime of 150 days before I finally turned it off.

Jeff Armstrong
jba at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org