Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 19:26:30 -0400 From: Rohit Dube <rohit@cs.UMD.EDU> To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>, "Clay R. Smith" <claysmith@upstate.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-booting FreeBSD and Windows95??? Message-ID: <199606302326.TAA09475@seine.cs.UMD.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jun 1996 21:42:02 BST." <10391.836167322@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 21:42:02 +0100 gpalmer@freebsd.org writes: =>Brandon Gillespie wrote in message ID =><Pine.BSF.3.91.960630141112.16500A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>: =>> If the IBM PS/1 is a microchannel board you may have some serious =>> problems getting FreeBSD working (last I checked Microchannel is not =>> supported, has this changed?). => =>It hasn't changed, no. I seem to remember several people offering to do =>MCA support over the last 2 odd years, but nothing has ever come of =>it. I would be very surpised if anything was done about MCA support =>in the next year or so, as it isn't very common and is becoming less so. => =>Gary I was asking similar questions about FreeBSD on MCA machines a couple of months ago. My take on the situation : a couple of guys in Australia and Europe set out to get FreeBSD to run on MCA machines. Although they got some stuff working, the port was never stabalized and released. If you have a MCA machine and want to run UNIX, check out the Linux MCA page : http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cpbeaure/mca-linux.html Neverthless, the corollary from Gary's observation being, MCA is not worth it. --rohit. (rohit@cs.umd.edu)
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