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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD beside Linux Date: 2 Jun 1996 21:34:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4ot1cf$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4or339$4gi@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nolte@teleport.com (William H Nolte) wrote: > 1. Will this work? I would add the bsd kernel to my existing > Linux boot manager (LILO). I think, but i've never used LILO myself. > 2. Where is the kernel source package? I want to ftp it > not buy it, if possible. Buy? Well, i can sell it to you for US$ 999 if you want. :) It's dists/src/ssys.* to be exact. > 3. Does bsd support the Adaptec aha152x scsi host adapter? > I have seen the 154x and 174x listed but not the 152x. It is supported, though the support is not overwhelming (read this: don't be surprised if you're running into some troubles). The appropriate driver is the ``aic'' one. > 4. Does bsd support the old Mitsumi single speed cd drives? You mean the old FX-001 one? It's the ``mcd'' driver. -- 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. ;-)