From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 22:16:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26389 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:16:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26252 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:16:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id BAA14081; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:14:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:14:36 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <199901150614.BAA14081@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: eischen@vigrid.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, piet@cup.hp.com Subject: Re: Looking for Suggestion on Booting FreeBSD 3.0 [snip] from 7895 [snip] Cc: piet@hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Yes, AIC789x is supported where x=5. > > I suppose my search for 7895 failed and/or I didn't realize the x bit. > > Think I can boot off the CDROM? I dunno... If it supports it... > Anychange that a Sun scsi CDROM would work. The sector size isn' the > same as PC use. Our Sun SCSI CD-ROMs are just repackaged Toshiba XM-5401Bs. > This is the first PC I've but together and my first attempt at using > FreeBSD. I've orderd a Matrox to use with some on my $30 21 inch sun > monitors; likely have to boot off of a PC monitor. > > Need to get the rest now; CPU's, memory, etc. > If you have any suggestions it might save me a few bucks and time. Decide what you want, and if you're unsure it's supported search the mailing lists. Whatever you do, don't get any kind of a Winmodem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message