Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 10:58:20 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Brian Vawter <bvawter@psnw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: motherboard or processor too new? Message-ID: <38271D4C.7B1F9671@3-cities.com> References: <002001bf2a09$cedfa9e0$08f62bce@Pbvawter>
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> Brian Vawter wrote: > > Last week I purchased The Complete FreeBSD with CD-ROM set. I have > three computers available to run FreeBSD on. The box of choice is > rather new. The Pentium ll Processor to AGP Controller is Intel > 82443BX as is the Pentium ll Processor to PCI bridge. > > My question is, Is this too new for FreeBSD 3.2 which came with the > book? I doubt it. Where things fall down are in the sound cards and modems. You can't have a winmodem and make any of *nix's work. Some of the sound cards can be a problem. I don't have a sound card in my FreeBSD system and haven't fought that battle. I have a Celeron 433 in a Asus F2B-B motherboard with a 128MB of memory. The PII and etc. is old technology. You can look in the root directory of the CDROM and see what hardware is supported. There are a number of text files that cover hardware and installation. There are some video cards that aren't supported by XFree86 but they work in the text mode with FreeBSD just fine. I think 3.2 used XFree86 3.3.3 and it is up to 3.3.5. FreeBSD 3.2 installed on my system just fine. I did the novice install and told the installation program what I wanted installed. When it finished everything worked. I replaced the slow CDROM after that because it took so long. Check your hardware against the list and then check out the tutorial information on the CDROM and http://www.freebsd.org. You can't have too much information but starting an install with insufficient information can be rough. Good luck, Kent > > Any assistance you can give would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Brian -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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