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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Nov 8 11:54:49 2000
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:52:09 -0500
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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To: Ben Haid <haid@jokaku.mit.edu>
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Boot it up and see what happens :-)
Chances are that it will boot the kernel (I have yet to find a recent x86 machine
that refused to boot single user mode) unless you have weird IDE controllers or a
USB keyboard or something stupid, but you'll need to poke around on the netbsd
website and elsewhere to see if the important accessories (video card for X, net
card, etc) will work in order to make it useful. In general, Linux tends to be the
first to support newer hardware, but you'll sacrifice stability and security.
-Jon
Ben Haid wrote:
> How can I find out if my computer will run NetBSD? Its
> a Compaq Presario 5000.
>
> thanks,
> Ben Haid
>
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