From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 15 16:45:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B39637B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from 66-214-248-56.gln-eres.charterpipeline.net (66-214-248-56.gln-eres.charterpipeline.net [66.214.248.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D26D43ED4 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:45:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: (qmail 53624 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Dec 2002 00:45:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Dec 2002 00:45:20 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:45:20 -0800 (PST) From: Avleen Vig X-X-Sender: avleen@guava.silverwraith.com To: "phk@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: Alex , Johnson David , "current@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Re[2]: 80386 out of GENERIC In-Reply-To: <33254.1039905426@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20021215164004.A174-100000@guava.silverwraith.com> References: <33254.1039905426@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > >> FreeBSD still runs on all 386 family CPUs, the only difference is that > >> if you want to run it on a 80386 you need to enable an option in > >> your kernel config file. > >> It will out of the box run on 486 and anything later. > > > >It means that you can not install FreeBSD on a 386 unless you have a > >486+ machine that can compile a new FreeBSD system and have a way to > >get that version to the 386. > > "Too bad". Harsh, but understandable. How difficult would the following be to develop, in your opinion? A boot disk image (like the sets of images on the website tm) that will boot on 386's as well as more modern CPU's that can newfs and disklabel your drives, download the source, and let you compile from that point. That way you don't need to transfer from one box to another, and you get the compiled install you want right away. I'd maybe like ot help with something like this but my abilities and experience are somewhat limited :-) It shouldn't really be that hard should it? You just need the boot disks, with utilities that are: newfs disklabel ifconfig something to download with (fetch? wget?) something to compile with - which can be downloaded with the source all precompile so the do work on all x86 CPU's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message