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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!inews.intel.com!frx198!mwilley From: mwilley@frx198.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Mark Willey - PCD) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: *BSD & Gateways?? Date: 8 Feb 1994 00:47:54 GMT Organization: Intel Lines: 36 Sender: mwilley@frx198 (Mark Willey - PCD) Distribution: world Message-ID: <2j6nfq$pme@inews.intel.com> References: <KRISTYN.94Feb7124412@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: frx198.intel.com In article <KRISTYN.94Feb7124412@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, 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, All hope is not lost. I have your exact same conflaguration, and am running NetBSD 0.9 and Xfree86 2.0. (BTW, Kristyn, what video card do you have?) I have an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro VLB w/ 2mb RAM (OEM version, no mouse port). If you get around to installing XFree86 and need some good raster gun/horiz. synch pulse timings, I got 'em. You can get NetBSD from sun-lamp.cs.berkeley (I think that's the correct name...) Let me know what you end up doing. BTW, do you know Rajat Bhargava (accord@athena.mit.edu)? He's a Master's Student in EE by now, I think... Mark -- This message was posted on my time, not company time. Opinions in this message are mine and not necessarily those of Intel. mwilley@pcocd2.intel.com