From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 19 6:21:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.openet-telecom.com (mail.openet-telecom.com [62.17.151.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9577E37B416 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from gpo.openet-telecom.lan (unverified) by mail.openet-telecom.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:26:19 +0000 Received: from openet-telecom.com (10.0.0.40) by gpo.openet-telecom.lan (NPlex 5.5.034) id 3C1EEB0C000014BA for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:10:15 +0000 Message-ID: <3C20A270.2C574D69@openet-telecom.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:21:36 +0000 From: Peter Edwards X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on "Miata" Personal Workstation sans SRM. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Before I go and shell out some (not so hard) cash for a PWS 433a, I'd like to know how much effort it'll take to get FreeBSD working on it. I know that the machine is the "a" version, so there's no SRM on it at present. Can anyone tell me: if I upgrade the BIOS with the image on the Compaq site, is the new BIOS augmented with the SRM, or do I need to go look for some ROMs or a ROM image in order to get FreeBSD running on it? -- Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message