From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 16:12:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA16822 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16814 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA01233; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:12:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Shan Krishnaswamy cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confirmation required In-Reply-To: <325BE994.2B39@gandhi.cs.luorc.edu> 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 Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Shan Krishnaswamy wrote: > I want to install FreeBSD 4.4 on a DEC 5100 machine(RISC). > I want to confirm whether this version is compatible with the DEC 5100 > architecture. I would appreciate if could confirm about this. Thank u If the DEC 5100 is an i386 (intel) archiecture machine, then yes. If it's a RISC then I don't think so. Take a look at NetBSD; they have wider architecture support. http://www.netbsd.org/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major