Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 13:25:54 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 64bit P4 vs mfsBSD Message-ID: <20150808132554.634b8177.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150808110607.3f290eaa@X220.alogt.com> References: <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com> <20150807133752.6dfdc4e7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150808110607.3f290eaa@X220.alogt.com>
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On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:06:07 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > this e-mail reminded me of an old machine of mine. It only worked up to > FreeBSD 7.x. FreeBSD 8.0 also did not boot as some hardware support was > dropped those days. You might be affected by something like this too. This is quite possible. I remember a different machine where I wanted to perform some data recovery, and _had to_ boot it with FreeBSD 5, because 7 - 10 wouldn't detect the disks (and the disks were _not_ detected in other machines as well). > PS > > My machine was a Pentium class machine, I think not even Pentium II or > III. I still have a fully functional Pentium II with 300 MHz here and less than 512 MB RAM. It runs FreeBSD 5 (and a wide set of applications) with the speed that's typically experienced on today's state-of-the-art computers with plentycore CPUs and Gigs of RAM and endless hard disks - but of course with today's bloatware (or even crapware) installed. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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