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From: murrayc@hansford.com (Charles H. Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What's "FreeBSD"? and will it support UltraStor 34F
Message-ID: <YU0VsAeFBh107h@hansford.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 23:33:44 -0700
References: <LadVsA2OBh107h@hansford.com> <22v442$57h@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <22up8o$pvb@introl.introl.com> <explorer.743637064@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> <236jtuINN4kv@hobbes.telco-nac.com>
Organization: The Hansford Group - Contract Software Engineering and Consulting
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In <236jtuINN4kv@hobbes.telco-nac.com> dave@telco-nac.com (David Cornejo) writes:
>In article <LadVsA2OBh107h@hansford.com> murrayc@hansford.com (Charles H. Murray) writes:
>>Do any of these versions support the UltraStor 34F controller yet?  I've
>>only been waiting for six months.

>As many have said before: No one is stopping you from doing it :)

There's a small problem with being able to bootstrap the code.  If you only
have the 34F, you can't load 386/Net/Free/BSD to make changes and recompile
the kernel, so that you can load 386/Net/Free/BSD.

-- 
Charles H. Murray                       "Performing Rocket Science at
Software Engineering Consultant          Orbital Sciences Corporation
Breckenridge, Colorado USA               Chantilly, Virginia USA"
murrayc@hansford.com