From owner-freebsd-platforms Wed Oct 15 22:37:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA06042 for platforms-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from azrael.uoregon.edu (azrael.uoregon.edu [128.223.194.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA06037 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (wesman@localhost) by azrael.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA09334; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:37:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Wesley Horner Reply-To: wesman@oregon.uoregon.edu To: Mike Smith cc: stephane@lituus.fr, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for VirtualPC? (on the PowerMac) In-Reply-To: <199710160112.KAA02698@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We have been trying all night and the installer crashed in different places every time. we think it's an incompatability with the power comuting (non apple) cdrom drive and driver. We are about to try a different machine. We'll keep you posted. wes ~~~~wesman@gladstone.uoregon.edu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vax a viscious creature known to eat 110AC and quotes through its *DCL*. Vax are usually found in groups of Vaxen called clusters where they lay in wait to ravage thier prey known as users. On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > > If you are interested in a PC emulator for the Mac, this one looks > > > pretty hot. > > > > > > > Did you have personnally try FreeBSD on VirtualPC ? And, if yes, had > > you try some benchmarks, try XFree86, try some SCSI devices... ? I > > would like to know if you can completely forget that you are not on a > > real PC :) > > Nope, sorry. It sounds like you can come pretty close though. > > mike > > >