From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 15:54:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CADD216A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:54:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from seaholm.caamora.com.au (seaholm.caamora.com.au [203.7.226.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 006CA43D48 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by seaholm.caamora.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id i08Ns4L09244; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:54:04 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <20040109105404.08441@caamora.com.au> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:54:04 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca References: <20040109081408.08548@caamora.com.au> <200401081328.00462.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <200401081328.00462.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca>; from Freddie Cash on Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:28:00PM -0800 Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cross compiling freebsd for target intel platform other than pentium X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:54:19 -0000 freddie, received with thanks and appreciations On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:28:00PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > On January 8, 2004 01:14 pm, jonathan michaels wrote: > > i'm not sure if this is the best place to discuss this topic as i > On the build box, edit /etc/make.conf and set CPUTYPE to the CPU type of > the old boxes. For instance, set this to 486 if the old boxes are > 486s, and so on. You may need to copy the default file yes, standard intel chipset (late 1980 to early 1990 '486 and a surviving pair of '386s with genuine 33 mhz '387's, history or nostalgia .. grin, i'm not sure which. i've managed to grasp teh basic concepts and understand teh process, freddie, thank you, muchly appreciated. a tape-backup-server needs be built (from a brace of recently aquired tandberg (525 mb scsi) streamers frm scraped old dec scsi expansion boxes. > The comments in /etc/make.conf and /usr/src/README, /usr/src/UPDATING, > and /usr/src/Makefile explain quite nicely how the buidlworld process > works and how it uses the variables in /etc/make.conf to control these are now top of my reading list. thank you for a place to start, and a plan to start with. muchly appreciated regards jonathan -- ================================================================ powered by .. QNX, OS9 and freeBSD -- http://caamora com au/operating system ==== === appropriate solution in an inappropriate world === ====