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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1 on a AMD468DX4-100
Date: 13 Apr 1996 09:32:40 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jabbott writes:

(Uh-oh, your news software is not setup correctly.)

> >I suspect memory problems.
> 
> I would aggree.  Just this past week I was working on a brand new Gateway 
> that had windows 3.1 on it.  I was supposed to install windows 95.  It 
> was one of the really fast pentiums. It did not have to be delivered to 
> its final owner for a couple of weeks and so I tried to install bsd on 
> it.  I could not get it to run.  [...]

> [...]  Ended up that I swapped out the SIMMS and then it worked 
> perfect.  I did not have time to go back and try a bsd install but I bet 
> it would have worked.

Yup, i usually test-install a FreeBSD on all customer's machines after
assembling.  This proves to be the best hardware test around... ;-)

(I've really been surprised yesterday, the base system installation
from a 6x CD-ROM to a Seagate Medalist disk on a 586/133 took less
than 5 minutes to complete.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)