From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 5: 6:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC3437B427 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 05:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8NC2Np16885; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:02:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BADD081.7BCBF5FE@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:07:29 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JOHN MUELLER Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I finally came to the following conclusion..... References: <3BAD9798.10605@uaa.alaska.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG JOHN MUELLER wrote: > > I've got 2 DEC Venturis 575s and a Celebris 590, the last 2 numbers > are the Mhz of the pentium chip on them. I flashed the BIOSes, but I > think the key is getting the right release for these machines. 3.2 > didn't seem to work, it was an Alpha version. These were manufactured > in 1995. I have never installed FreeBSD successfully, but that is > because I have the wrong versions. Anyone have a quick information fix > (other than target practice ) ? > Johnny If I'm understanding your questions correctly, you simply need to find out if the processors are Alpha or Intel/Intel clone and get the proper version of FreeBSD. Having made it sound very simple, you should also check the rest of the hardware in the machines against the supported hardware at ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/HARDWARE.HTM Assuming that your hardware is supported, there's not reason that FreeBSD won't work on ~600mhz pentium class processors. I acutally was running it on a 150mhz pentium up until just a few months ago. A little slow, but it worked fine. -Bill -- "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message