Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 22:35:53 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone having 2.1 install trouble with funky IDE hardware? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951203223507.22321A-100000@ivory.lm.com> In-Reply-To: <199512031804.TAA03130@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Out of curiosity, what sort of performance do you get out of this box? Is it useful for anything? Low-speed routing? Can you run X on it? I've got some hardware sitting around doing very little, and this might be something useful to try.... On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Have any folks out there > > installed 2.1 on old-n-mouldy 386 equipment without incident? > > My test box is an ancient 386sx/16 w/ 6 MB RAM, a Seacrate ST1144A IDE > disk, and a (flakey) Maxtor SCSI hanging off an AHA-1540*A* control- > ler, plus a Herculess card & monitor. Everything went flawlessly for > all of my 2.1 pre-releases. > > (Ain't this a pretty ancient environment for testing? :-) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > "The law locks up both man and woman / Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose / Who steals the common from the goose." -anon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Berger - peterb@telerama.lm.com - http://www.lm.com/~peterb
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