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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1 on a AMD468DX4-100 Date: 13 Apr 1996 09:32:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4knsbo$hkp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3162E14E.1ECA@mail.direct.ca> <4kgfea$bkn@innocence.interface-business.de> <4kmna8$op2@oak.ic.mankato.mn.us> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jabbott writes: (Uh-oh, your news software is not setup correctly.) > >I suspect memory problems. > > I would aggree. Just this past week I was working on a brand new Gateway > that had windows 3.1 on it. I was supposed to install windows 95. It > was one of the really fast pentiums. It did not have to be delivered to > its final owner for a couple of weeks and so I tried to install bsd on > it. I could not get it to run. [...] > [...] Ended up that I swapped out the SIMMS and then it worked > perfect. I did not have time to go back and try a bsd install but I bet > it would have worked. Yup, i usually test-install a FreeBSD on all customer's machines after assembling. This proves to be the best hardware test around... ;-) (I've really been surprised yesterday, the base system installation from a 6x CD-ROM to a Seagate Medalist disk on a 586/133 took less than 5 minutes to complete.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)