From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jan 26 11:18:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6532937B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:18:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0QJIB983620; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:18:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101261918.f0QJIB983620@harmony.village.org> To: Justin Scott Subject: Re: greetings Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:06:31 CST." <20010126130631.D24432@impakt.net> References: <20010126130631.D24432@impakt.net> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:18:11 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010126130631.D24432@impakt.net> Justin Scott writes: : What I am wondering is if the current "Networking Version" of PicoBSD has the : ability to support SMP? I don't think so. : The project I'm currently working on is the resurrection of Pentium-or-better : class machines, which have been abandoned by their owners in favor of faster : hardware. I try to get as many dual-processor machines as possible. The : whole reason for this is to provide CPU cycles to the SETI@Home project. Cool. Are these machines new enough to support PXE in many of the newer NIC cards? If so, you may be better off just doing a PXE boot instead of a PicoBSD boot. Most PCI nic cards on ebay are $10-$15 and many of them support PXE. But I can't recall if the BIOS needs to support it too or not. : What I am considering is placing two floppy drives into one of these systems, : booting off of the PicoBSD floppy, and storing all SETI@Home information on : the second floppy. Two CPU's worth of SETI@Home data files can be stored in : less than 1.44 megs, including a single copy of the client binary. If you can get the SMP support into the kernel, then this has a good chance of working. However, you'll likely need to do a lot of custom hacking, I suspect. The 3.x version is likely easier to get going, but I think it lacks SMP support. : I apologize if this topic has previously been discussed, or if my answer could : be found in online documentation. I didn't find the answer on the PicoBSD : site. No. this is certainly a novel use of older machines :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message