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#! rnews 1948 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.wham.siu.edu!slip106.termserv.siu.edu From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Solved: Re: Gateway-2000's Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:59:58 CST Organization: Southern Illinois University Lines: 29 Sender: NNTP@slip106.termserv.siu.edu Message-ID: <22260a7b.38f7b@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: slip106.termserv.siu.edu Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p In-Reply-To: <221ba62c.2cc29@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> (from jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)) (at Mon, 19 Feb 1996 02:49:19 CST) X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 6.24) Hi Jim, on Feb 19 you wrote: > Hi Binh, on Feb 15 you wrote: > > > In article <4ft450$8s6@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu>, > > Jim Dutton <jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu> wrote: > > >I am having problems installing FreeBSD on a Gateway-2000 machine. Has anyone > > >else been able to successfully install FreeBSD on such a beast ? > > > > > > > I have FreeBSD on Gateway 2000 486-DX2, 16M and I am quite happy. What is you > > problem? > > After the install process completes formatting the HD, it dies with a "panic: > page fault" error message. > > Additionally, when I "attach ix0" after disabling MCD0, the ATTACH command > reports an E-net address of all zeros, which I suspect is incorrect. I changed Ethernet cards and everything works just fine !???!?!? I WAS trying to use an Intel EtherExpress Pro/10, and the above problems were encountered. I changed to a 3Com 509B TPO, and I no longer have the above problems. You DO have to set the card to "no Plug-and-Play", though, but that is easy to do. I DID, however, discover that the installation documenation recommendations for /usr/src, and /usr/X11R6 sizes were too small.