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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: Wannabe NetBSD user Message-ID: <1994Jun19.042728.16327@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <CrI5By.7AJ@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 04:27:28 GMT Lines: 42 Karl Hakimian - staff (hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu) wrote: : I hope this is the right place to ask this, if not, please let me know : (gently) where I should go. : I would very much like to run NetBSD-i386 on my system at home, I have grabbed : the latest version and perused the docs. : The problem is the system I have is a Pentium PCI system. The docs do not say : it will or won't run on such a system. They do imply that the only thing it : will run on is a [34]86 ISA (or ESIA) bus system. : Should I give it up now? Is someone working on a port? : If there is hope for setting up such a system, where would I find docs to get : me going? : The system is a Gateway and as the on-board IDA (I also have a PCI SCSI : controller Adaptec 2940?) and a DAT drive. I would like to be able to put SCSI : drives on it as well. : Thanks for your time. The IDE controller should work just fine but the SCSI controller is unsuported and likely to stay that way. See if you can trade it for a Bustek one. Also you might run into problems with the Saturn PCI chipset if your Pentium is a 60 or 66 Mhz one. The Gateway 2k P5-90 runs fine with FreeBSD and I assume will do the same with NetBSD. It uses the fixed Neptune PCI chipset though. Steve : -- : Karl Hakimian : hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stever@babbage.cba.csuohio.edu "What's better than a free OS?" " A free OS with source." FreeBSD at freebsd.cdrom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------