From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 12:05:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA24950 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA24926 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:04:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA11466; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:04:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:04:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: garness@demon.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD work on Proprietary Computers? In-Reply-To: <858988277.053824.0@atwal.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 garness@demon.co.uk wrote: > Just a question whether any one has tried insalling on an AST Advantage > 9316 or 6066d. I'm interested in FreeBSD but don't want to go through a > LINUX prob I had on LINUX (CD ver) not installing because of it not seeing > my ATAPI CDROM. If it's ATAPI and not too crazy, it should work. You can try it by booting the install floppy and see if the wdc driver finds it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major