From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 17:35:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B265337BB01 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA41383; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:35:16 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200003160135.TAA41383@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE will not install on Everex laptop In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000315174215.045eb7c0@localhost> from Brett Glass at "Mar 15, 2000 05:45:21 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:35:16 -0600 (CST) Cc: sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn), questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass babbled: > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:45:21 -0700 > To: Sheldon Hearn > From: Brett Glass > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message