Subject: Re: Installing on old Compaq 486
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: dan radom <dradom@redback.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/28/2001 12:39:20
i've got a compaq deskpro 468 with oine of those AMD NEt pci NICs.  It wsa picked up here...

le0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: PCnet-PCI Ethernet
le0: address 00:80:5f:74:09:a3
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
le0: interrupting at irq 11


cheers

* Wouter Vijvers (woutje@chello.nl) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm about to install NetBSD on an old Compaq 486 DX2-66 with 12 MB RAM. I
> have a couple of questions about it's hardware:
> 
> - It has a AMD PCnet ISA II (AM79C961AKC) network-card. Is this one
> compatible with one of the cards listed on the NetBSD site or is it not
> supported? (hope not)
> - I've got two HDD's of about 420MB (Quantum and Seagate). Is it possible to
> let a partition run over the two disks? Or should I just keep it simple and
> for example mount /usr on the first one and /usr/src on the second one?
> - It has an interface-card (ISA) that holds things like the parallel, serial
> and IDE ports/busses. Can I expect problems with this thing?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot, regards,
> Wouter