Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:18:25 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz Message-ID: <41AD9A71.60502@wanadoo.es> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIELIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIELIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Ramiro, > > Don't I qualify as a guru, I did after all write a book on it: > > http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/ Thanks Ted for your mail. I am very happy of beeing able to speak with people that knows well the FreeBSD system. > > Also, as for your problem with the CMD640, I myself have a dual-processor > P100 board with this same IDE controller on it, that is running FreeBSD. I > have a SCSI controller installed in it, the IDE controller is disabled. > This > controller was unfortunately used a lot in Pentium 60/90/100 motherboards. :-( > > To be honest the biggest problem with your post is that you didn't > identify the make and model of machine or at least motherboard that you > were working with. If for example you had said the motherboard was a > "ASUS 123XYZABC456" then most anyone experienced here could have easily > looked up the specs for the motherboard, saw it was a CMD640 job, and > steered Yes, sorry, I understand. Next time I will be more accurate. Indeed, when I posted my first message, I did not know that I was the owner of that ugly 640 disk controller. I discovered it when I booted linux and whatched kernel messages > you to the FreeBSD 3.xx series which has support for this controller. > (which by the way, supports it by basically destroying all the go-fast > disk code in the disk driver, leaving you with a usable, but dog-slow, > system) In any case FreeBSD 3.x is obsolete now of course, so it's no > good exposed to the Internet (you can in fact, crash it by hitting it > with a stock nessus probe) but it is fine for pooting around with behind > your firewall. You are right Ted, when I had Linux installed on that pentium machine it worked even slower than a 486 machine that I also have. Tonight, I downloaded FreeBSD 4.10 mininst cdrom and I successfuly installed in the dog-slow-pentium. I seems to work but it is slow as you said. > > >>Thank you Brian, at least I know that there is people at the list, and >>If I have not received any answers apart from Ted's, I have only two >>ways of solving my problem: >> >>1- install 4.10 and forget upgrading anymore. >>2- throw the pentium away >>3- install Debian again (it will mean that I have lost the fight) :-( . >> > > > 4) Disable the onboard IDE controller and install a SCSI controller and > disk, or even one of the caching IDE controllers. > > By the way - if you are willing to pay shipping, many of us have basements > full of junk computers that we don't use anymore that are undoubtedly > better than your P100. Thank you dear Ted for your offer. If I need it I will tell you in the future. This dog-pentium is a Fujitsu model that I hate, cause it is on a "landscape" shaped box (I do not know the english word, it is for staying on a table, and the monitor on top of it) and graphic card is buit-in on the motherboard. It is very difficult to work inside (there is no room)and make changes. It was a computer that a friend did not use and gave to me, to experiment. Another friend, is going to give me an old pentium 75 MHz soon, so I am praying for it not having a CMD 640 controller :-) As you can see, I am collecting old machines just to play. I do the same with valve black and white TV sets. I have got my first TV with 35 years old working in a room at my house in the countryside :-) Thank you for your help. Ramiro.
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