Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:11:38 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Joe Warner" <jswarner@uswest.net> Cc: "James Diefenderfer" <james@worldly.org>, "Jerry Dunham" <jerry@dunham.org>, <cal@rushe.aero.org>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com>, "Michael Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au>, <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Still No FreeBSD Message-ID: <061b01bfd4dc$b7aee7d0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> References: <200006100634.XAA15122@calamari.aero.org> <20000610202611.H22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942F563.9613BCE7@worldly.org> <20000610212117.N22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942FA1C.68246759@worldly.org> <20000610213641.P22659@rider.dunham.org> <3943EB0B.CB3B
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Weird isn't ?? ...... I think its probably best that newbies avoid proprietory hardware generally- I agree but sometimes, when you're first starting out, it's hard to know you've got proprietory hardware until you've already pounded your head against a wall and pulled your hair out for a week. Exactly ...... which is why I intend to do a hardware HOW_NOT_TO as soon as time is available. Might save some poor mugs having to go through all the trauma You might want to add NEC to this list. I had such a hard time with my NEC PowerMate v133 at work, that I had to abandon my Linux partition I had on it. I could barely get NT 4.0 to work with the on board SiS 6205 video card. The sound card was a fight too but less of one than the video. Oh well, I'm finally cured of the "dual-boot" disease. Heh Heh.. Will do :) ..... the only reason NEC wasn't on the list already is that I haven't seen one of those things in desktop format in ten years ....maybe we don't get them in OZ anymore (the last one I saw was an XT or 286, which proved the theory that neanderthal computers were powered by smoke ..... when smoke stopped coming out the box refused to work !!). I guess there must be a purpose in life of SiS videocards .... maybe someone will tell me what it is someday. As for the dreaded "dual boot" disease, I'm lucky enough to have never been infected by that .... even in the days when I was attempting to get some sense out of that linux virus I kept strictly to the "one O/S per hard drive" philosophy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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