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Xref: sserve comp.sys.laptops:15060 comp.os.386bsd.questions:9233 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!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: bsd386 on laptops? Date: 10 Mar 1994 17:23:37 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2lnl2p$ud@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <HOFFMAN.94Feb25125344@tesuji.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> <pascal.763312539@tempa> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <pascal.763312539@tempa>, Pascal Pederiva <pascal@zuo.dec.com> wrote: >>has anyone had successful experiences with 386BSD derivates on any* >>laptop machine? > >FreeBSD 1.0.0 works pretty fine on my DECpc 325 slc (=386sx/sl cpu) >the only 'problem' is that it seems to hang for a couple of seconds >after probing the harddisk (wd0). FreeBSD 1.0.X does that on all machines. In FreeBSD 1.1 there is still a delay, but it's not quite as long. This was due to the probe routine going off looking for other drives and taking it sweet time in not finding them. :( Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.