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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.thepoint.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux (again! ;) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4q3m32$35v@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <31BD1390.54AB@bekkers.com.au> <4q1kcp$1mc@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <4q29eq$33k_002@news.livenet.net> <4q2lfe$ai0@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:20:34 GMT Lines: 29 In article <4q2lfe$ai0@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>, <aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> wrote: >Thank you Sir. But I don't get the boot prompt. You have not described your hardware at all. Apparently FreeBSD is dependent on something or specific behavior that the other's aren't (assuming you have hardware that we support.) Note, of the bugs that I have known of, the complaint that you are making is unique. Too bad that you are apparently not willing to help us to diagnose your problem. You are certainly welcome to use another OS, but as you go along, using the other OS, and run into a bug -- make sure you tell them that their work is junk, and see how much help you get there. Your problem is probably hardware, or a bios that just acts slightly differently in an unexpected way. We work very well with standard i486/Pentium motherboards (and I have heard i386), with standard bioses like Award, AMI, Phoenix, MR Bios, etc. If you have a machine that we don't have special support for, well, it is a matter of what we do and don't support. If there is an OS that works better for you, then use it. I use NT when necessary. That doesn't make NT better than FreeBSD in general, it just makes it better for a specific application. Apparently, you have hardware that doesn't work with FreeBSD... Use something else!!! John dyson@freebsd.org