From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 26 19:50:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23451 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from socko.cdnow.com (socko.cdnow.com [209.83.166.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23436 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heller@daria.cdnow.com) Received: from daria.cdnow.com (daria.cdnow.com [209.83.166.60]) by socko.cdnow.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA21970; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:49:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from heller@localhost) by daria.cdnow.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13285; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:47:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" Message-Id: <199807270247.WAA13285@daria.cdnow.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-stable on Virtual PC To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: sharding@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU, mike@smith.net.au, heller@cdnow.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com In-Reply-To: <199807270208.TAA13469@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jul 26, 98 07:08:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One of Apple guru's did get FreeBSD installed from a Dos partition. ( I'm so used to installing over the net now that this method was spooking. = ) On bootup from the harddisk getty kept re-spawing and lots of the deamons cored. I'd like to see FreeBSD run on VPC, heck I would like it to run on a 14CPU Sun Ultra 4000..but.. Karl > > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Ok, sounds like VPC has changed a bit then. 8( > > > > Actually, it didn't work in the version that was supposedly fixed either. > > I've been trying this with every version since 1.0, and it has never > > worked on any machine I've tried it on :-\ > > > > > Where is "the same spot"? > > > > IIRC, it's at 9% in extracing /bin...I used to have a screen shot of it > > around here somewhere, but I can't find it anymore. > That doesn't tell us very much. What is the failure mode? Details > details details. 8) > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- A. Karl Heller - Senior Systems Engineer - heller@cdnow.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. Do something unusual today. Accomplish work on the computer. >>>>> HTTP://CDNOW.COM - BIGGEST FASTEST BEST <<<<< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message