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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Richard G. Duvall" <rgduvall@greymalkin.com>
To:        John Szumowski <harpo@javanet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Modem Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.970808133744.18237A-100000@greymalkin.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970808075725.8408A-100000@kona.javanet.com>

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It reboots when the screen says "decompressing kernel..."

I am going to check dejanews.com now.  I already checked the mailing list
and didn't find anything.

See ya...

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, John Szumowski wrote:

> I don't know...my experience with FBSD and PCs has been limited to Intel
> chips. You should probably check out http://www.dejanews.com or
> freebsd.org's mailing list to see what others have done.
> The only thing I can suggest is to get the latest 2.2.2 (if that's what
> you're going to install) floppy (there's a newer one at fbsd's ftp site)-
> and make sure that you don't have any hardware conflicts.
> 
> It would be helpful, in the future, if you could trace down the exact
> point in the boot at which the machine seems to have trouble.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
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> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Richard G. Duvall wrote:
> 
> > Another question:  Will FreeBSD run on a Cryx machine?  A friend of mine
> > has a cyrix machine, and the boot floppy keeps rebooting the machine on
> > bootup.  I doubt that it does work because I know that cyrix does have
> > some compatibility problems, but maybe you can tell me different!
> > 
> > See ya...
> > 
> 




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