On Thursday 27 September 2007 01:11:40 pm jonathan michaels wrote: > > > can anyone help, suggest, i have also down-load some of teh relevant > > > doc's on teh HP/Compaq web-site and read, read and more read ... > > > > > > most kind regards/appreciations > > > > What did you set the OS type to in Smart Start? If you used "other" then try > > using a different setting such as "Novell Netware" or "UnixWare". > > i used solaris, for some reason that seemed the most sensible to use, > for as far as i could recall solaris was the most "bsd" like ??
For Compaq's purposes, FreeBSD is not anything like Solaris. Other users (if you do a simple web search like I did when I replied to your e-mail) have had success with the options I mentioned above. > dies the difference in teh memory seen/available have anything t do > with this ?? the machine has a little over 4 gb real dram, smart start > claims ththat ther is ony 3G8 but freebsd says that it starts with 3G6. Assuming you are using FreeBSD/i386 and that you get it installed ok, you can try using a PAE kernel to get access to the full 4 GB of RAM. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
