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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news1.best.com!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.montanavision.net!3rivers3.3 rivers.net!not-for-mail From: ron@3rivers3.3rivers.net (Ron Warnick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem installing 2.2 on Compaq Armada Date: 25 Mar 1997 00:37:44 GMT Organization: Vision Net Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5h76oo$mpm@news.montanavision.net> References: <3336B902.167EB0E7@eunet.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3rivers3.3rivers.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38086 Martin Machacek (martin@eunet.cz) wrote: : As the subject says I've got a problem installing FreeBSD 2.2 Release on : my friend's Compaq Armada notebook (100Mhz Pentium, !6 MB mem, 2 PCI : EIDE controllers, 1.2GB EIDE Harddisk, CirrusLogic ??? Video, 3Com 3C589 : PCI NIC, ??? intergrated soundcard, PS/2 Trackpad). The machine hang : while booting from floppy after probing all devices just before mounting : root filesystem. The last message I've got was: : : apm0: disabled not probed : I made it work on my compaq armada with the following change in the config file: device npx0 etc, etc to: device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" flags 0x01 irq 13 vector npxintr Also with 2.2-BETA which I am still running, the ps2 mouse was not found. Kazu Yakota sent me some patches which fixed this problem, let me know if you want them. Ron @}-->-->------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ron Warnick ron@3rivers.net 406.264.5549, Fax 406.264.5721 System Administration Solaris, SunOs, Aix, Linux, FreeBSD, Plan9