From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 15:04:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7A716A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:04:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2AF43D45 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:04:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from [24.150.215.98] (d150-215-98.home.cgocable.net [24.150.215.98]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB6768E3; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:04:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41AC8B98.80202@cogeco.ca> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:02:48 -0500 From: Brian Bobowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Thunderbird/0.7.1 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ramiro Aceves References: <41A85F08.3070506@wanadoo.es> <41AC57F6.4040303@wanadoo.es> In-Reply-To: <41AC57F6.4040303@wanadoo.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:04:41 -0000 Ramiro Aceves wrote: > Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and > search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD > 640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I > think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions. I do > not know why I can not even see the kernel boot, I think it should > work until it mounts the first filesystem. > It seems that it is good time to throw away this old machine.... :-( > Well, salvage any hardware that you can; you never know, you just might find a compatible motherboard without a CPU, and then you'll be able to mix and match. (Speaking as someone who's missed too many scrounging opportunities, here.) > PS: I am surprised that only one person answered my email. Did I ask > my question in the wrong mailing-list? If so, please tell me where I > should post it. Speaking for myself, I often will hold my peace if I feel that someone else has adequately answered the question; I'll only throw in an additional contribution if I feel it's necessary, that is, either the first to respond has left something out or they've stated something I think is incorrect or, at least, not appropriate to the OP's query. I just thought that was mailing-list typical; if you don't have anything to add that hasn't been said, some people just won't waste the bandwidth. This is certainly the right place for general questions about the OS and getting it to run; if the experienced residents of the list don't think it is the right place for something, they'll often advise you of such and even CC to the right list(which you could then sign up to through the mailman interface if you want to follow such things). Overall it's a pretty friendly bunch; you'd have to be quite obnoxious to actually incur wrath. As an aside, when you reply to or forward e-mail, especially to a list, it's usually considered better form(because it keeps thoughts flowing in the right direction) to only include what's relevant to your reply(especially if the replied-to message is long), and to include your comments AFTER the text you're replying to. Note what I've done in this message - put my comments in right after what I was commenting to, deleted the rest(with that little marker to show that text was omitted which, while relevant, isn't enough so that it needs to be quoted in full; being overzealous in such deletion can be confusing, though). If the original message is very short, it's sometimes okay to just put your commentary after the entire message, but putting your comments at the top - although some readers do this by default - is bad form; this is what's known as top-posting(sometimes Jeopardy posting after the game show whose distinguishing feature is putting the answer before the question), and you may be asked to avoid it if you get into discussions with others while still using it. The only reason I myself would use it is if I'm forwarding something and need to provide the recipient(s) some general context first. -BB