>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Keep in mind that the way this bug works is when you have a hard disk
on the first IDE controller and a CDROM on the second (as you do here)
when they are both transferring data at the same time the CMD 640 chip
corrupts the data. You can fix it by moving the CD to the sam
> -Original Message-
> From: Ramiro Aceves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Subject: Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz
>
> npx0: INT 16 interface
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ramiro Aceves
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:18 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
You are right Ted, when I had Linux installed on that pentium machine it
worked even slower than a 486 machin
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ramiro Aceves
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:18 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>
> You are right Ted, when I had Linux installed on that pentium machine it
> worked even slower than a 486 machine that
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Ramiro,
Don't I qualify as a guru, I did after all write a book on it:
http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/
Thanks Ted for your mail. I am very happy of beeing able to speak with
people that knows well the FreeBSD system.
Also, as for your problem with the CMD640, I m
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ramiro Aceves
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz
>
> am a boy that likes to
Brian Bobowski wrote:
> Well, salvage any hardware that you can; you never know, you just
>might find a compatible motherboard without a CPU, and then you'll be
>able to mix and match. (Speaking as someone who's missed too many
>scrounging opportunities, here.)
Dear Brian:
Thanks for answering.
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and
search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD
640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I
think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions. I
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and
search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD
640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I
think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions. I
Hello Ted and FreeBSD fans,
I have tried the FreeBSD 4.10 boot floppies and they work. I am still
thinking about why 5.3 fails. I have tried some hint.*.*.*="*" that I
found searching on the Internet but it does not work.
I would like installing FreeBSD in that old machine. I had Debian woody
Hello Ted:
Thanks for your help. I tried that before without success. I am going to
download 4.10 floppies and I will tell you the result.
Thanks.
Ramiro.
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-
RELEASE
particularly the section:
See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-
RELEASE
particularly the section:
To disable the acpi driver completely, set the kernel environment vari-
able hint.acpi.0.disabled to 1.
This should be done in the loader prompt. When you get the message
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