From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 8 13:39:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11905 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greymalkin.com (root@[206.163.149.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11900 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greymalkin.com (rgduvall@greymalkin.com [206.163.149.219]) by greymalkin.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA18254; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:38:46 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:38:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Richard G. Duvall" To: John Szumowski cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem Installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It reboots when the screen says "decompressing kernel..." I am going to check dejanews.com now. I already checked the mailing list and didn't find anything. See ya... On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, John Szumowski wrote: > I don't know...my experience with FBSD and PCs has been limited to Intel > chips. You should probably check out http://www.dejanews.com or > freebsd.org's mailing list to see what others have done. > The only thing I can suggest is to get the latest 2.2.2 (if that's what > you're going to install) floppy (there's a newer one at fbsd's ftp site)- > and make sure that you don't have any hardware conflicts. > > It would be helpful, in the future, if you could trace down the exact > point in the boot at which the machine seems to have trouble. > > Good luck. > > _ _ ___ ______ ______ ______ > | | | | / _ \ | __ \ | __ \ / ____ \ > | |_| | / /_\ \ | |__| | | |__| | | / \ | > | _ | / _____ \ | __ / | ____/ | | | | at javanet dot com > | | | | / / \ \ | | \ \ | | | \____/ | http://www.javanet.com/~harpo > |_| |_| /_/ \_\ |_| \_\ |_| \______/ > > On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Richard G. Duvall wrote: > > > Another question: Will FreeBSD run on a Cryx machine? A friend of mine > > has a cyrix machine, and the boot floppy keeps rebooting the machine on > > bootup. I doubt that it does work because I know that cyrix does have > > some compatibility problems, but maybe you can tell me different! > > > > See ya... > > >