From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 26 15:48:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22140 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 15:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hoflink.com (root@hoflink.com [199.173.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22130 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 15:48:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikeg@hoflink.com) Received: from hoflink.com (ppp5.hoflink.com [199.173.65.105]) by hoflink.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA08774 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 18:52:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35BBB225.6EA75640@hoflink.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 18:48:06 -0400 From: Michael Graziano X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-stable on Virtual PC References: <199807262146.RAA12894@daria.cdnow.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A. Karl Heller wrote: > Has anyone attempted to get FreeBSD stable working on the Virtual > PC emulator for the MAC? > > http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/tsa/projs/vpcbsd.html describes how to get NetBSD > working and I am now running that. I would MUCH rather be running > FreeBSD. It looks possible just glancing through the modifications that were made, but it might be an awful lot of work. A cheap 386 with a 1.2 gig HDD should work fine for a basic system though. If you (manually) patch the relevant files to be somewhat like what this site suggests, I would give odds that the remaining problems (if any) could be ironed out. (Don't quote me on that, I am terrible with macintosh systems. They don't like me!) > > > > Karl > > -- > A. Karl Heller - Senior Systems Engineer - heller@cdnow.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. > Do something unusual today. Accomplish work on the computer. > >>>>> HTTP://CDNOW.COM - BIGGEST FASTEST BEST <<<<< Hmmm, my foot is an unbreakable toy, I've broken computers with that before :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message