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