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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!st-ursen.lightside.net!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD vs. Am5x86 Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 16:14:15 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 11 Message-ID: <fred-0808961614150001@st-ursen.lightside.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: st-ursen.lightside.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So is FreeBSD definitively compatible with the 586 chip? I am not having any luck installing 2.1.5 on my 586 system. The installation keeps crashing with memory faults and error 11's. The system memory self-test passes, however. Thanks for any insights! -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party