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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boulder!csn!qwerty.fsl.noaa.gov!woody.fsl.noaa.gov!kelly From: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Subject: Re: the Hardware for FreeBSD 2.0 Message-ID: <1995Jan6.223744.18534@fsl.noaa.gov> Sender: news@fsl.noaa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory References: <3ek5n2$90v@mailer.fsu.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 22:37:44 GMT Lines: 24 In article <3ek5n2$90v@mailer.fsu.edu>, Gang-Ryung Uh <uh@sed.cs.fsu.edu> wrote: >I am trying to purchase a powerstation from MICRON (P90PCI).. >Is there anybody who has some experience with installing >FreeBSD 2.0 or some newer version on that machine? I'm running FreeBSD 2.0 on a Micron P66PCI PowerStation. Micron's prices for memory and disk space are really good. I've got the 1GB IDE drive option and the 32MB ram option. Everything works great except the Mitsumi CD-ROM sometimes gets confused. But umounting then remounting the CD-ROM clears up the problem. I don't know if that's Micron's fault, Mitsumi's fault, or the FreeBSD's fault. One other thing: as soon as you get FreeBSD 2.0 installed, recompile the kernel and remove probing for devices you don't have. Apparently, the probe phase somehow convinces the BIOS, when you next reboot, that something's wrong with the system configuration, even though nothing is. Otherwise, it makes a really nice platform for FreeBSD! --k PS: I don't work for Micron.