From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 5:36:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fontmail01.fontys.nl (fontmail01.fontys.nl [145.85.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF7537B71E for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 05:36:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from G.Houben@fontys.nl) Received: by fontmail01.fontys.nl with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:32:17 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FW: Does freebsd work well on Dell Platforms? Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:32:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why do I get this message so many times? -----Original Message----- From: Doug Poland [mailto:doug@polands.org] Sent: maandag 19 maart 2001 17:15 To: Martin McCormick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freebsd work well on Dell Platforms? On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:54:44AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Since wee can probably get the best deal on these > systems and since they seem to be generally very good, I am > asking as to whether there are any problems with running freebsd > on new high-end Dells? > > I know I have had fair to very good luck getting Linux to > work on Dell 266-MHZ dimensions so I know some platforms are > fussier than others. One system with a SCSI bus is basically > okay but with no sound yet. Another similar system with no SCSI > bus is fine but seems to take a long time to boot. At least its > sound works. > My $0.02... I've got 4.3-BETA running fine on an PII-400MHz Dimension (by no means a high-end machine). Simply had to set "Plug and Play OS" to no in the BIOS to get it to recognize PCI NIC and Soundblaster. No SCSI in this box :( -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message