Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:18 -0500 (EST) From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Recent problems running BSDI Netscape Message-ID: <0lNdAm200YUf01kUQ0@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Over the last few days, various FreeBSD systems I provide support for have started generating Floating point exception errors when loading/running Netscape (2.01 and Atlas) on FreeBSD 2.1.0-R. I'm told that this specifically happens when loading Netscape's home page -2.0.1 seems to generate this error on Netscape's page itself, and Atlas generates it on the "Personal Homepage" section they recently set up, and as such I suspect their java code in some way. But anyhow, this is a recent occurence -- Netscape under emulation had been running happily for quite some time. On a search for floating point exceptions, I pulled up the NetBSDvsFreeBSD page, and noticed that the author discussed a problem with FreeBSD generating exceptions instead of NaN. Is this still a problem, and could this be the cause of my problems? :) Not all my problems, just the FreeBSD ones. As an unrelated sidequestion, I don't control the bootp/dhcp server on my subnet, and can't add entries as needed. I'd like to use netboot and a reduced kernel to load up FreeBSD occasionally on my old 386 (which used to be my primary BSD system back in 2.0 :) -- does anyone have a modified netboot that has a hardcoded set of IP's to use, instead of bootp? Would it be relatively easy (or hard) to modify netboot to use a config file with settings specific to that PC instead of relying on bootp? Robert Watson rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu
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