From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 07:52:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA04476 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 07:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from po9.andrew.cmu.edu (PO9.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA04470 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 07:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from postman@localhost) by po9.andrew.cmu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03471 for freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:31 -0500 Received: via switchmail; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix28.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix28.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from Messages.8.5.N.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix28.andrew.cmu.edu.HP9000.777 via MS.5.6.unix28.andrew.cmu.edu.hp700_ux90; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <0lNdAm200YUf01kUQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:52:18 -0500 (EST) From: Robert N Watson To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Recent problems running BSDI Netscape Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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