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From: klee@imagen.com (Kanghoon Lee)
Subject: Re: *BSD & Gateways??
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Date: 8 Feb 94 16:51:56 GMT
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kristyn@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Kristyn Fayette) writes:
>Hello,
> This last weekend I tried to get FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE running on my
>Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V (486DX2, 66 Mhz cpu w/ VESA localbus). Everything
>worked fine until I got to the part where the CPIO floppy is used in
>the installation process. But at the point where you insert the CPIO
>floppy and enter 0 or 1 for the drive the diskette is in, my pc hangs.
>The prompt is there, but I can't enter 0 for Drive A. It won't accept
>any keyboard input.
> I have a Western Digital Caviar IDE hard drive, a 124-key AnyKey
>keyboard and am using the kcopy-ah floppy. I believe I've also tried
>the -CURRENT kcopy-ah and filesystem, but my PC rebooted when the
>system began to read the filesystem floppy.
> Has anyone gotten any *BSD running on a Gateway? Am I going to be forced
>to use Linux and Minix?
> -----Kris
>--
> -=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=-
> kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu
We have installed NetBSD 0.9 and XFree86 on Gateway DX2-50MHz. It works fine
without any trouble. I don't know how to install FreeBSD, but you probably
want to get the FAQ files if you want to install multiple operating systems.
If you want to install NetBSD, I can help you.
Kang.
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