From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 14 20:41:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA21252 for current-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 20:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA21243 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 20:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uplink.eng.umd.edu (uplink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.181]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14023; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:41:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by uplink.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA12371; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:41:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: uplink.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:41:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@uplink.eng.umd.edu To: Chris Layne cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior for a Compaq Deskpro with 2.2-960801-SNAP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Chris Layne wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 1996 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > Hi, I installed 2.2-960801-SNAP on a Compaq Deskpro 5100. There are > > a few strange things happening that I thought I'd ask about: > > > > 1. The machine has 24 MBytes of memory, but only 16 are recognized > > by FreeBSD. (The BIOS finds the full 24 MBytes on powerup.) > > Read the damn FAQ! How many times must we answer this same question over > and over and over. Read the documentation, and if that doesn't solve your > problem, THAN ask us. Chris, if you can't politely answer questions here, maybe you ought to defer to others, or maybe ask the person to use the FreeBSD-Questions list (which he should have done). Jumping on someone because they asked a perfectly reasonable question (had it been sent to -questions) isn't going to help anything, not even reduce the signal/noise ratio here. Remember, be polite (even if the question was driving everyone crazy). > > == Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing == > == coredump@nervosa.vendetta.com == http://nervosa.vendetta.com/~coredump == > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------