From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 3 17:37:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from out5.ibm.net (out5.prserv.net [165.87.194.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4641507C for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfrohn@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip166-72-80-15.ca.us.ibm.net [166.72.80.15]) by out5.ibm.net (/) with ESMTP id AAA09706 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:37:24 GMT Message-ID: <37D06627.21527792@ibm.net> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:21:59 -0700 From: Rainer =?iso-8859-1?Q?Frohnh=F6fer?= Organization: Comfortably @ Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a Multia References: <199908211122.NAA18179@noses.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Achim Patzner wrote: > : From what I've recently learned, using a Multia is a Really Bad Idea. > : Yes, they are cheap, but that's the ONLY good thing about them. Both > [snip] > Mine died after I tried installing NetBSD (which doesn't really mean that > NetBSD is that bad an OS 8-) ). I paid about USD 60 for each hour it ran. > But as the NetBSD people (obviously - they started quite a bit earlier) had > lots of them they started repairing them (better: improving their health 8-) > ). > > Take a look in the NetBSD/alpha archives to find out more about un-frying > Multias. > To say something positive, mine (a 233 one) has been running 24/7 for months without trouble. And with floppy and internal 2.5" hd, on the vertical stand. -- "To save energy we will temporarily switch off the light at the end of the tunnel." (I don't employ for my speaker) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message