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#! rnews 1496 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:17511 comp.os.linux.misc:43391 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 13 May 1995 22:52:11 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3p39mb$pbt@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ovd1u$1jtd@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> <MICHAELV.95May12203839@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3p284n$l6s@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3p360d$6sp@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>Just as a matter of interest, I couldn't boot FreeBSD on my Pentium/PCI. >>It just hung on the second (cpio) diskette. >Hmmm. I urge you to retry this with the 2.0.5 release candidate, when >it's out, and tell us if the problem persists. I will try it, as and when I see it. I tried it before, because of minor but annoying bugs with Linux (the dreaded signal 11) on my machine. I'm coming to the conclusion that this _is_ a hardware problem, as everyone says, and so will presumably occur with FreeBSD. However, if it does not I would be sorely tempted to move across. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland