From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 12:54:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17980 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:54:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17973 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:54:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.255]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAF23; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:53:34 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <365428E4.344B5267@hns.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:58:14 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Eric Ashbaugh Subject: RE: General questions Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Nov-98 Eric Ashbaugh wrote: > I have browsed the web pages and still have a few remaining > questions about FreeBSD that I hope someone might be able to > answer. We shall see =) > I am looking for an OS for an embedded real-time application. > The OS will most likely run on a pentium PC. Aye... http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd Although the CURRENT cvsup sources carry more recent versions > Questions: > > 1) How does FreeBSD function in a "headless" state. That is, > no display, mouse, or keyboard. This ain't Windows mate ;) It works, and keeps on working... > 2) I saw information about installation of FreeBSD. What about > upgrades?? It is desired that this can be done remotely over > a network with no on-site support. I have done some local upgrades of 2.2.x to 2.2.x+1 and to 3.0.x systems and that went all pretty well > 3) How about support of ATM NICs? I did not see mention of that > in the release notes. I thought I saw some mention on a projects page about ATM, could be Linux or FreeBSD. Ahhh, found it: http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck/tech/bsdatm/bsdatm.html > 4) Information on debugging facilities/tools? Ehm GDB and some more... > I guess that covers my initial questions. Thanks in advance for > the information. Most welcome =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message