From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 06:05:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA25785 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 06:05:12 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA25763 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 06:05:09 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA05733; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:49:28 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507181319.WAA05733@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Hardware Requirements for FreeBSD To: EPEDDYCO@dcscorp.com (Ed Peddycoart) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:49:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ed Peddycoart" at Jul 13, 95 11:12:45 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1421 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ed Peddycoart stands accused of saying: > > Please forgive me if I have sent this post to the wrong list. I am new to > the freebsd lists and I was not sure where I should send this.... Just questions@freebsd.org would have done it. > I would like to install some version of unix FreeBSD on my machine at > home. I want to use a boot manager so that I can have unix but my wife > can still have Windows 3.1. My question is do I have supported > hardware. I have a 90 MHz pentium (Micron P90), PCI bus, Micronix > MotherBoard I believe, Western Digital EIDE 730 MB hard disk, Future > Domain SCSI card for CD-ROM which is a Plextor 4x, Mag Innovision 17" The FD card may be a problem; which model is it? Not many are supported, and they all perform badly. (This is a design problem, not a flaw in the driver per se.) > monitor 17DF I think, Matrox Impression Plus (2 MB VRAM), HP 4Plus > Printer. Can I use FreeBSD as I desire? Apart from the CD, and possibly more memory, depending on how much you have. > Thanks in advance -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[