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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:24:46 -0400
From:      "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To:        "Andy Sparrow" <spadger@best.com>, "Philipp Westphal (aka WaSa)" <wasa@dark-waves.de>
Cc:        <mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: 560x tp 
Message-ID:  <000801c158fd$9f2bc2e0$6600000a@columbia>
In-Reply-To: <20011019221903.E98253E8F@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andy Sparrow
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 6:19 PM
> To: Philipp Westphal (aka WaSa)
> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 560x tp
>
> > i got freeBSd insatalled on an IBM tp 600, it seems that insatalling
> > over cdrom isn't possible with tp's in general.. i had to boot over
> > floppy and after that i was abel toinstall.
> > in my older days i used debian GNU linux, there was no it was no
> > problem, to boot over cdrom
>
> Hmm. While I was at Red Hat last year, I noticed that the TP 600
> (which they
> had a bunch of) wouldn't boot a FreeBSD CD-ROM (3.4, IIRC), although they
> /would/ boot the RH 6.[12] CDs.
>
> Wouldn't swear to it, but I think the IBM IntelliStations they had also
> displayed similar symptoms. Didn't bother me too much at the
> time, because my
> laptop of the time wouldn't boot from /any/ CD, regardless.. :)

	This is getting a bit off topic, but I've seen (and have) an IBM PC-350
machine that will boot any OS install CD that I can find... except for ANY
version of Linux.

--- Andy


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