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From: kristyn@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Kristyn Fayette)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: *BSD & Gateways??
Date: 7 Feb 94 12:44:12
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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
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-=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=-
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