Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:35:16 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE will not install on Everex laptop Message-ID: <200003160135.TAA41383@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000315174215.045eb7c0@localhost> from Brett Glass at "Mar 15, 2000 05:45:21 pm"
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Brett Glass babbled:
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:45:21 -0700
> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
> From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
> At 03:31 AM 3/14/2000 , Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> >On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:07:11 MST, Brett Glass wrote:
> >
> >> Sometimes, I'll get past the configuration into the installation
> >> screens, but before I can get the OS installed the machine
> >> inevitably dies; the installer catches a signal 11 and terminates.
> >
> >Are you convinced that this is good hardware? If this happened to me,
> >I'd suspect the hardware immediately.
>
> I'm testing the hardware now. I'm wondering, though, if it has
> something to do with the type of CPU. This is a 100 MHz 486,
> which as far as I know was never made in a laptop version by
> Intel. So perhaps it's a Cyrix part. If it is, would it require
> anything special?
I have a couple of Dell notebooks with 100 MHz 486 notebook processors
from Intel. I've run FreeBSD on one of them, and it works fine. Many
notebooks identify the processor during boot, so it might even tell you
if you're watching at the time. Will this machine run any other OS
properly?
--
Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire
jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H)
E Pluribus Unix
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