Subject: Re: Dell machine
To: Chow-Sing M. Lin <lch@bruce.engr.ucf.edu>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/22/1998 23:37:06
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Chow-Sing M. Lin wrote:

> Hello,
> 	Has anyone ever successfully installed NetBSD on Dell machine? I 
> tried to install NetBSD on a Dell Pentium 100 PC, but the system got 
> stuck when some of files in base.tgz have been decompressed. The 
> motherboard in the Dell machine is not a regular one, I doubt NetBSD is 
> not compatible with Dell machines?
> 	Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated.
> 

I don't really have any suggestions, but I have NetBSD running quite
nicely on a Dell OptiPlex Pentium 166 PC in my lab at school.  Actually,
do you have enough disk space to extract al the files?

-Dan