[geeks] FreeBSD install problem on ALR server

Mike Nicewonger geeks at sunhelp.org
Sat Jul 21 20:27:01 CDT 2001


On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, you wrote:
> Very very nice.. are you going to be selling them, and if so can you give
> a ballpark on them?  I'd guess the problems you are running into are
> support for that admittadly odd system.  You might want to try a recent
> SMP linux kernel just to see what happens.
> 	Nick

Red Hat 7.0 works.

I really don't wanna run Linux on this. Not sure what I am going to do with the
other two yet. I have 4 new 333MHz Pentium II 333 MHz overdrive CPU's and the
machine seems to like them. <hmmmm 4 time 333MHz hmmmmm>

x86 Solaris is supported, at least as of 2.6 anyway :)

Mike N

> 
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> 
> > Hi gang,
> > 
> > I got my hands on 3 ALR Quad 6's today (4 x PPro 200/512k) and tried to install
> > FreeBSD on the box, since it no like booting from the CD-ROM I dd'd the floppy
> > images and when it askes for the mfsroot floppy it hangs. Anybody seen this
> > before?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Mike N
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