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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:01:31 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        drosih@rpi.edu
Cc:        ru@FreeBSD.ORG, geoffrey@reptiles.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ?
Message-ID:  <20030227.220131.00002520.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <p05200f25ba841e941541@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org> <20030227112755.GC39346@sunbay.com> <p05200f25ba841e941541@[128.113.24.47]>

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In message: <p05200f25ba841e941541@[128.113.24.47]>
            Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
: I'm thinking maybe the 5.x release CD's should include:
:      GENERIC
:      GENERIC +SMP
:      GENERIC +VMWARE-friendly settings
:      GENERIC for i386
: 
: Would that add too much extra work for a 5.x release?

Not to start *that* bikeshed again, but even if you had a GENERIC for
i386, sysinstall is too pigdogish to have any hope of running on the
memory that one finds on a real 386.

Warner

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