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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pentium machines?
Date: 20 Jun 1994 15:48:59 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <2tthp5$7q2@cobber.cord.edu>,  <doroin@cobber.cord.edu> wrote:
>Does anyone have FreeBSD running on a Pentium similar in configuration as
>my DECpc XL Server:
>
>Pentium 66Mhz
>PCI/EISA
>64MB ram
>1GB SCSI2 HD

We have something similar to this running FreeBSD at the University. 
(Actually, we is probably not a good word since I did nothing but provide
the machine and answer a couple questions)

>
>I have two IDE drives that have FreeBSD 1.1R on them.  They used to be in
>my 386 machine.  I tried to boot my Pentium with the HDs but FreeBSD didn't
>like the processor.  The kernel was compiled for the 386.  Will recompiling
>for the 486 do the trick?

Yep.


Nate

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