From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 11:41:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04103 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04087 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wood@ct.picker.com) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:40:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from sunset.picker.com (sunset.ct.picker.com) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10631; Tue, 17 Feb 98 13:40:07 EST Received: from ct.picker.com by sunset.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA12575; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:40:02 -0500 Message-Id: <34E9D980.505DB9F1@ct.picker.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:40:01 -0500 From: Chris Wood Organization: Picker International X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, c.l.wood@csu-e.csuohio.edu Subject: Free BSD on a gw2k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Daemons: I wonder if you or anyone you know has had any success installing FreeBSD on a Gateway 2000 machine. I have a gw2k 200MMX Pentium, with integrated Ensoniq PCI sound and ATI Rage II video on the motherboard. It has 32 Mb SDRAM and a 3.8 Gb EIDE Hard drive. I am having a hell of a time installing FreeBSD on it. I bought the CD from Cheap*Bytes, it is version 2.5.2, IIRC. I've gotten to the config program, but it hangs when trying to write the boot manager, and in any case, there are no options for my sound & video cards, and I'm not sure if it has the right driver for my CD-ROM (it is a Toshiba 20X). I'm kicking myself in the butt for not making my own machine so I could pick out BSD-compatible hardware, but I wonder if you know of anyone who has successfully installed FreeBSD on a machine like this, and how they did it. Thank You, Christopher L. Wood To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message