From owner-freebsd-commit Sun Sep 24 13:18:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA12052 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:18:26 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA12039 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:18:21 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA12026 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:18:18 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA12011 ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:18:08 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA01682; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:17:57 -0700 To: Nate Williams cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:38:39 MDT." <199509230138.TAA06228@rocky.sri.MT.net> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:17:56 -0700 Message-ID: <1680.811973876@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > By adding PCVT to the kernel we get the ability to install on > ThinkPad's. By adding the SysV stuff we don't install on any more > hardware, but allow a commercial program to run. However, the > commercial program is not run during the install, so the kernel > installed on the HD would be adequate. Unfortunately, the kernel installed on the HD is the same one. We'd need to go for "boot generic" and "run generic" before this concept would work. Hmm. Jordan