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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:37:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        stephane@lituus.fr, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for VirtualPC? (on the PowerMac) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971015223545.1674B-100000@azrael.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710160112.KAA02698@word.smith.net.au>

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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

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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
> 
> 
> 




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