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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I run NetBSD on VLB 486dx2? Date: 7 Feb 1997 14:01:49 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5dfckd$mtq$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <01bc14da$53577d80$18b550cc@continuum> NNTP-Posting-Host: antifer.ipv6.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: genie@onetinc.com X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5317 Breakdown (genie@onetinc.com) wrote: > Hi. I'd like someone to tell me if I can run NetBSD on the following > configuration: > > - 486DX2 VLB/66 Mhz w/32M RAM; (Gateway 2k) > - ATI Mach32 w/2M RAM > - 2.5 GIG WDC Caviar EIDE (hope it's enough space to install NetBSD :) > - NEC 8x EIDE CDROM (daisy chained off the same IDE cord with the HD) > - SoundBlaster 16ASP > > This is what I thought is crucial to be supported by NetBSD so if anyone's > more familiar than me with hardware support under NetBSD ver. (latest > formal release) :), please let me know, I'd appreciate it very much. You may have a problem with the SoundBlaster, if it is pnp (however, someone told me that, if you can find the port/irq assigned by the pnp bios, this work). For the CD-ROM, you will need to get the unnoficial patch from: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/atapi or ftp://ftp.ensta.fr/pub/NetBSD/atapi > > And lastly, does NetBSD support PPP's PAP authentiication? Thank you. (I > run BSDI 2.1(it's pretty damn fast too for a 486 :), and that doesnt seem > to support it) Yes. -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --