[geeks] FreeBSD install problem on ALR server

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

That's *Un-Possible* <grin>.  No, seriously, the ppro-overdrives are based
on PII cores, which can only do two way.  It would rock if these could
take 4 ppro overdrives though.....  Try it out under load for a while
	Nick

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Mike Nicewonger wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, you wrote:
> > Very very nice.. are you going to be selling them, and if so can you give
> > a ballpark on them?  I'd guess the problems you are running into are
> > support for that admittadly odd system.  You might want to try a recent
> > SMP linux kernel just to see what happens.
> > 	Nick
> 
> Red Hat 7.0 works.
> 
> I really don't wanna run Linux on this. Not sure what I am going to do with the
> other two yet. I have 4 new 333MHz Pentium II 333 MHz overdrive CPU's and the
> machine seems to like them. <hmmmm 4 time 333MHz hmmmmm>
> 
> x86 Solaris is supported, at least as of 2.6 anyway :)
> 
> Mike N
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi gang,
> > > 
> > > I got my hands on 3 ALR Quad 6's today (4 x PPro 200/512k) and tried to install
> > > FreeBSD on the box, since it no like booting from the CD-ROM I dd'd the floppy
> > > images and when it askes for the mfsroot floppy it hangs. Anybody seen this
> > > before?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Mike N
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