From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 20:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CB537B5D2 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dheller1@rochester.rr.com) Received: from mailout2.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.165]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:16:47 -0400 Received: from rochester.rr.com ([24.24.34.106]) by mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:08:29 -0400 Message-ID: <38FD25C8.832C4E88@rochester.rr.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:19:36 -0400 From: David Heller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerlbonnie@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) References: <7e.3b294c4.262df084@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerlbonnie@aol.com wrote: > > I have a friend with an IBM PS/1IT with Windows 3.1. Can freebsd be installed > on this computer? She is a shut in with no funds to get any upgrades OR new > computer system. > Thanks, > Bonnie Maloney > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Another problem that I have found with these systems is they won't even run Windows 95 correctly in less you have windows 3.1x that came from IBM installed first as the software has to talk to IBM's weird bios on these boxes. The reason I suspect this, is a friend of mine with a PS2 or was it a PS1 (can't remember which) hosed his 3.1 windows software by trying to install Windows95 over it. And according to IBM's web site the only way to fix his computer was to install their version of windows3.1x on it which is NLA. Apparently the bios runs some kind of graphical interface/shell that the OS has to talk to before it will boot. Anyway make sure you have the original software disks before attempting a install of Freebsd. Regards, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message