On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:30:54PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > 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.
yes i did try for many hours, that is why i finally asked here. i was not getting anywhere in my attempts, it is hard for me to "use" and then to understand teh results > > 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. muchly appreciated, thank your for your time and effort kind regards jonathan -- ================================================================ powered by .. QNX, OS9 and freeBSD -- http://caamora com au/operating system ==== === appropriate solution in an inappropriate world === ==== _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
