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From: bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5 on PCI (was: NetBSD-1.0 - WHEN?)
Date: 22 Sep 1994 01:23:11 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <35p0vb$7tp@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <35ncc9$34dv@yuma.acns.colostate.edu>,
>Sandy Lam <sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU> wrote:
>>	this would be a lot cooler if the BINARIES of the install were available
>>	somehwere.  I can't install FreeBSD on my disk because most of my 
>>	machines are PCI, which won't work on FreebSD (i've tried).
>
>Not to start any flame wars, but this is strange.  I have 6 PCI machines
>here and all of them run FreeBSD.  wcarchive.cdrom.com is a PCI machine
>running 1.1.5.1 - it works fine!  You must have a very odd PCI machine,
>I guess! :-)

Not that odd...  FreeBSD 1.1.5 doesn't run on my PCI box either.  I can
run 1.1 for weeks on end with no troubles, but 1.1.5 panics as soon as
I start swapping/paging.  At the moment I'm running a kernel with some
of the 1.1.5 features I needed hacked into 1.1.  I'm hoping the VM
problem is cured in 2.0, but the last -current I got didn't compile.
John Dyson offered to come by and see this in person, but unfortunately
it was during the week I was moving from one appartment to another.

Oh, in case you want to rate oddity:  Zeos 486DX2/66 PCI w/16M.

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Ben Jackson