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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Hardware for FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 10 Dec 1994 17:36:39 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3ccov7$m9p@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <60.9918.5307.0N1C28F8@canrem.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <60.9918.5307.0N1C28F8@canrem.com>, Barnaby Ng <barnaby.ng@canrem.com> wrote: >I'm thinking of getting the FreeBSD CD from Walnut Creek, so I called >them for the hardware supported for release 2.0. They told me to ask on >the net since he didn't has the list handy. So here it goes:- > >Intel 486DX2-66 >Gigabyte m/b with Award bios and SIS chipset >256K cache and 16MB main >Boca multi-io card (8 bit) with 16550 >ATI Graphic Turbo with 2MB VRAM (Mach64 chipset, VL bus version) >Adaptec 2842VL SCSI host (AIC7770 chipset, VL bus version) It should work fine. >and I like to hear from people who has actually used it, not just >according to the spec. For us to say that it works on the above hardware means that it's been tested on the above hardware. What more can I say? If your hardware is bad, then it won't work, but if your hardware is okay AND it's the above type, then it should work. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.