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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.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!ais.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!brokaw.wa.com!not-for-mail From: tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 26 Apr 1997 13:13:41 -0700 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5jtnll$297$1@halcyon.com> References: <33322E84.42877E5C@FreeBSD.org> <3351536E <slrn5lam80.1e6.jstevens@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov> <5jgqbm$ccj@hendrix.postino.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:172153 comp.os.linux.advocacy:94893 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3098 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:173285 Danny Aldham <danny@hendrix.postino.com> wrote: >: RedHat is *MUCH* easier to install than Win95! > >Not on my stock Acer/Altos7000p. Redhat can't seem to find the Adaptec >disk controller. But FreeBSD did, just fine thankyou. There's something odd with Linux and at least some Adaptec controllers. I've got three very different machines at work, that all have host adaptors in the 2940 family. I've tried several Linux distributions on them all, and they all install OK until the point where they need to boot the installed kernel. Then they hang after the driver for the host adaptor complains about something being wrong with interrupts (I don't remember the exact message). Putting an IDE drive in one of them and installing Linux on that, and telling the setup program that I don't have any SCSI host adaptors, let me get installed, so now I, if I get time, try to track down the problem. --Tim Smith