From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 4 14:57:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03123 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:57:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03111 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:57:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp82.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.82]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01698; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:56:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:43:06 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: Aaron Nadeau cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why won't this thing work? In-Reply-To: <19981204170849.15612.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD on two OLD 386 computers. Both > of them are using Pheonix BIOS 1.10. I got them for free from my > school because I can't sepn money on a new unix box. If you could > help me get these things running I would really appricate it. It's possible that they're not fast enough to run FreeBSD... The minimum recommendations are 486sx-25 or so. That being said people have run 386 fine. Where does it reboot? How far does it get? Have you tried pulling out any non-essential hardware? Does other systems, like DOS load fine? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message