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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!meaddata!swiss.ans.net!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!delos.stgt.sub.org!tyrell.tynet.sub.org!marsu.s.bawue.de!root From: mow@marsu.s.bawue.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5 on PCI (was: NetBSD-1.0 - WHEN?) Date: 23 Sep 1994 16:54:59 +0100 Organization: Palumbian Research Labs Lines: 32 Message-ID: <35utoj$1ck@marsu.s.bawue.de> References: <199408172054.PAA07862@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <1994Sep20.134745.15198@ccc.amdahl.com> <35ncc9$34dv@yuma.acns.colostate.edu> <35p0vb$7tp@agate.berkeley.edu> <35qm9v$gkq@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: marsu.s.bawue.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes: >In article <35p0vb$7tp@agate.berkeley.edu>, >Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >>In article <35ncc9$34dv@yuma.acns.colostate.edu>, >>Sandy Lam <sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU> wrote: >>> this would be a lot cooler if the BINARIES of the install were available >>> somehwere. I can't install FreeBSD on my disk because most of my >>> machines are PCI, which won't work on FreebSD (i've tried). >> >>Not to start any flame wars, but this is strange. I have 6 PCI machines >>here and all of them run FreeBSD. wcarchive.cdrom.com is a PCI machine >>running 1.1.5.1 - it works fine! You must have a very odd PCI machine, >>I guess! :-) >Not that odd... FreeBSD 1.1.5 doesn't run on my PCI box either. I can >run 1.1 for weeks on end with no troubles, but 1.1.5 panics as soon as >I start swapping/paging. At the moment I'm running a kernel with some >of the 1.1.5 features I needed hacked into 1.1. I'm hoping the VM >problem is cured in 2.0, but the last -current I got didn't compile. >John Dyson offered to come by and see this in person, but unfortunately >it was during the week I was moving from one appartment to another. >Oh, in case you want to rate oddity: Zeos 486DX2/66 PCI w/16M. Free BSD 1.1.5.1 also runs fine for me and my Intel Premiere P5-90 PCI with ASUS SC-200 NCR SCSI controller and 32 MB RAM. -- // Markus Wenzel // 1st Institute of Physics // // NeXTSTEP Consulting + Administration // University of Stuttgart // // mow@marsu.s.bawue.de // wenzel@rus.uni-stuttgart.de //