Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:34:45 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101161134360.4803-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net>
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OH ok, just curious how that was going to work. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Will Andrews wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > Wont this make installing using sysinstall a bit hard? I know the generic > > kernel includes all the CPU lines, so that all cpu's are recognized... so > > are you going to just take this line out of the generic kernel, and have a > > special kern.flp disk with a generic kernel that only has the i386 support > > in it? > > I don't think it's worth the effort. By the time 5.0-RELEASE goes out, > the 386 will have been around for over 10 years (actually I think it has > already reached that point and gone beyond). There are not likely to be > many more installs of FreeBSD on 386's, let alone 5.x installs. > > People who *really* want to install 5.x on a 386 can generate their own > kernel and such. > > -- > wca > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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