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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Altos 386
To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 18:18:02 -0700 (MST)
Cc: cam@pinnacle.co.nz, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199510130026.RAA06206@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 12, 95 05:26:20 pm
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[ ... old Altos box, probably an 886? ... ]

> > We have FreeBSD 2.0.5 and would like to run this on the above machine.  Is
> > there any way we can install FreeBSD on this machine since it does not have
> > a 3.5" Floppy drive ??  We have a number of PC's connected on our TCP/IP
> > network which have 3.5" Floppy drives...   We have a number of Unix
> > (different 
> > flavours) on the network also...
> > 
> > Is this possible ???
> I would expect it to work..
> the disk will be very tight.
> you'll only be able to instal a 'minimal system'

If this in't a 1000 or 2000, I'd expect it to fail to recognize the bus.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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