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From: klg@diana.tmbtax.tambov.su (Kabanov Leonid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PCI/Pentium and *BSD
Date: 3 Aug 1994 09:03:45 -0000
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Kevin Sullivan (ksulliva@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
: Hello. I am looking at fast 486 or Pentium boxes running NetBSD or FreeBSD
: for use as low-cost servers in schools (elementary through high).
: Currently we use Decstations and Sparcs. The machines have to serve mail,
: NFS, WWW, IMAP, etc, as well as a large number of telnet sessions. I have
: machines with both *BSDs now and they are working out pretty well. However
: I am afraid that a 486/66 may not be powerful enough when 15-20 people log
: in and want to use gopher (or whatever).
: Has anyone tried NetBSD or FreeBSD on a Pentium? Have there been any
: problems? Likewise, does either one run with PCI cards? I would like
: to get a PCI SCSI card (maybe the Bustek 946C).
I tried to install NetBSD & FreeBSD on a Pentium machine. NetBSD don't
want to install. It's boot, init kernel, set root device and reboot.
FreeBSD work normally, but don't look for my SCSI card( NCR CMDS PCI card).
: Thanks for any information. I'll summarize any information I get.
: -Kevin
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E-mail: klg@tmbtax.tambov.su Leonid G. Kabanov