Subject: Re: Dell machine
To: Chow-Sing M. Lin <lch@bruce.engr.ucf.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/04/1999 15:41:04
On Dec 22, 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.
> 
>          

How much RAM do you have ? Does it have an IDE or SCSI disk ?
Also, you didn't tell us which version of NetBSD you're trying to install.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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