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From: pascal@zuo.dec.com (Pascal Pederiva)
Subject: Re: bsd386 on laptops?
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References: <HOFFMAN.94Feb25125344@tesuji.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 15:15:39 GMT
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hoffman@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Hoffman) writes:


>I went into PC store this morning to test FreeBSD on a toshiba 1650
>laptop before buying it.
>has anyone had successful experiences with 386BSD derivates on any*
>laptop machine?

FreeBSD 1.0.0 works pretty fine on my DECpc 325 slc (=386sx/sl cpu)  
the only 'problem' is that it seems to hang for a couple of seconds
after probing the harddisk (wd0).

Pascal Pederiva
Open Systems Support
Digital Equipment Corp. Switzerland