Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:25:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: Dual-booting FreeBSD and Windows95??? Message-ID: <199607021125.HAA24901@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <10391.836167322@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 30, 96 09:42:02 pm
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> > Brandon Gillespie wrote in message ID > <Pine.BSF.3.91.960630141112.16500A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>: > > If the IBM PS/1 is a microchannel board you may have some serious > > problems getting FreeBSD working (last I checked Microchannel is not > > supported, has this changed?). > > It hasn't changed, no. I seem to remember several people offering to do > MCA support over the last 2 odd years, but nothing has ever come of > it. I would be very surpised if anything was done about MCA support > in the next year or so, as it isn't very common and is becoming less so. > > Gary Unfortunately, this is so. I work for IBM now and there's a Ton of 386's I'd be running FreeBSD on if I could get an idea of how to get Token Ring support and Microchannel support working. But both are way beyond me. The machines are cheap and surplus hardware internally (and just about the same externally at every used hardware company... I hear there's folks with Linux up on microchannel and I've got a Compaq running with Token Ring support under Linux now. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win95 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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