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From: hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff)
Subject: Wannabe NetBSD user
Message-ID: <CrI5By.7AJ@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (Greg Bell)
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 18:14:21 GMT
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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.


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Karl Hakimian
hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu