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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 1996 11:37:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ed Mullins <edmull@galaxy.galstar.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD installation..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960623113536.229C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606222321.SAA20822@galaxy.galstar.com>

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What CPU is your machine?  486?  What speed?

On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Ed Mullins wrote:

> > > My motherboard is an ISA board, by the way..
> 
> ---first one---
> (J16) Onboard Super I/O Enable

Definitely not it (unless you want to swap out your onboard IDE for a 
regular one)

> (J23) SEL2----CPU Clock Speed Select

I wonder if these are set right.  They control the bus speed.  

> Well, I just called Packard Bell technical support, the guy didn't know
> much about unix/clones or anything, but he said my motherboard had no PCI
> interfaces or anything related to PCI what-so-ever (for the first time,
> this guy really knew what he was talking about, most PB techs. don't know
> crap).  He also gave me a debug routine to that will delete all partitions
> on the drive - he said somtimes fdisk, and others, are unable to detect
> some partitions due to virus' and such, even though I don't think that's
> the problem in my case, I'll try..
> 
> He said there was also no VLB stuff, except for the video... Everything is
> ISA, he said..

OK, will keep that in mind.

> So.. what do you think, now? :)

Still lost.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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