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Date:      Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:43:06 -0800 ()
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To:        Aaron Nadeau <fallinangl@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: why won't this thing work?
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.3.95.981204144119.-94821A-100000@direct-source.com.direct-source.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981204170849.15612.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>

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> hello,  I am trying to install FreeBSD on two OLD 386 computers.  Both
> of them are using Pheonix BIOS 1.10.  I got them for free from my
> school because I can't sepn money on a new unix box.  If you could
> help me get these things running I would really appricate it.

	It's possible that they're not fast enough to run FreeBSD... The
minimum recommendations are 486sx-25 or so. That being said people have
run 386 fine. 
	Where does it reboot? How far does it get? Have you tried pulling
out any non-essential hardware? Does other systems, like DOS load fine?



						Rick


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