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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: *BSD & Gateways?? Date: 7 Feb 1994 20:30:45 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2j68dl$ek1@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <KRISTYN.94Feb7124412@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <KRISTYN.94Feb7124412@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Kristyn Fayette <kristyn@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: >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. > > Has anyone gotten any *BSD running on a Gateway? Am I going to be forced >to use Linux and Minix? NetBSD, 0.9 installed on my gateway 2000 in about 90 minutes, so if worst comes to worst, you can use that instead of Freebsd. the keyboard lockup problem is something i've been seeing in netbsd-current, but never in 0.9. marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--