Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:05:15 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <JULIAN@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Curious minds .. etc Message-ID: <YXKo%2B0KPIarBTBSf@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <853f9dd2-4a19-7267-4be5-ffa9d6c7659a@freebsd.org> References: <853f9dd2-4a19-7267-4be5-ffa9d6c7659a@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:07:47AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > Several years ago (OK, maybe 12 years ago) I did an experiment where I > unpacked a > freebsd 1.1 (or maybe 2.0?) image into a subdirectory, and after installing > various > compat packagesand options and a.out support and changing MAX_PID to be > 60000, I was able to > chroot to it and do a "make world". Things were stupidly fast. > > > Has anyone been able to do such a thing in recent years? One wonders what > options one > would need and what the oldest Version we could run in this way was.. Yes, I added support for a.out to amd64, and wrote man page which documents all details that are relevant there, see aout(4).
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