Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:32:17 +0100 From: "Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" <G.Houben@fontys.nl> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FW: Does freebsd work well on Dell Platforms? Message-ID: <C1E0E1EF0987D3119E720008C70D266601800B58@fontmail02.fontys.nl>
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Why do I get this message so many times? -----Original Message----- From: Doug Poland [mailto:doug@polands.org] Sent: maandag 19 maart 2001 17:15 To: Martin McCormick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freebsd work well on Dell Platforms? On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:54:44AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Since wee can probably get the best deal on these > systems and since they seem to be generally very good, I am > asking as to whether there are any problems with running freebsd > on new high-end Dells? > > I know I have had fair to very good luck getting Linux to > work on Dell 266-MHZ dimensions so I know some platforms are > fussier than others. One system with a SCSI bus is basically > okay but with no sound yet. Another similar system with no SCSI > bus is fine but seems to take a long time to boot. At least its > sound works. > My $0.02... I've got 4.3-BETA running fine on an PII-400MHz Dimension (by no means a high-end machine). Simply had to set "Plug and Play OS" to no in the BIOS to get it to recognize PCI NIC and Soundblaster. No SCSI in this box :( -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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