From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 16: 7:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547C937B55D for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3INZdl29383; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:35:39 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Hendriks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Gerlbonnie@aol.com Subject: Re: IBM PS/1 Was: (no subject) Message-ID: <20000418163539.B29026@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38FC970E.59E3325F@sympatico.ca> <00041818541400.00232@mymachine.imag.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00041818541400.00232@mymachine.imag.net>; from markh@lon.imag.net on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 06:19:05PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mark Hendriks [000418 16:31] wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Paul Halliday wrote: > > Gerlbonnie@aol.com wrote: > > > > > > I have a friend with an IBM PS/1IT with Windows 3.1. Can freebsd be installed > > > on this computer? > > > > Yuppers. > > Actually, I believe that IBM's PS series was based on their MCA bus, which > is not supported by FreeBSD. Even if I'm wrong about the PS1 being > MCA bus, there are still also going to be a few other problems. From LINT: # MCA devices: # # The MCA bus device is `mca'. It provides auto-detection and # configuration support for all devices on the MCA bus. # # The 'aha' device provides support for the Adaptec 1640 # # The 'bt' device provides support for various Buslogic/Bustek # and Storage Dimensions SCSI adapters. # # The 'ep' device provides support for the 3Com 3C529 ethernet card. # device mca -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message