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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
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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

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