From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 14:43:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (dread.austin.texas.net [206.127.24.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FE415306 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:43:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dread@donhm.calcasieu.com) Received: (from dread@localhost) by donhm.calcasieu.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA45993; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:43:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dread) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3842FF47.FCABB55D@cybercable.fr> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:43:06 -0600 (CST) From: Don Read To: Thierry Herbelot Subject: RE: Do I need a 387 to install FreeBSD ? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Nov-99 Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Hello, > > A friend of mine insists on being a victim of the FreeBSD virus ;> > : he > wants an ancient 386 PC to become his gateway to the Internet (via a > Cable connection). perfectly reasonable use for a door-stop box, 8 (orisit 12 ?) megs of memory and you should be good to go. > > I've just read the handbook section on installing FreeBSD and I don't > see wether the GENERIC kernel needs a 387 or not. What should I read ? > (the GENERIC conf file does not seem to help) - maybe you missed the line (?): options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation Regards, -- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- No Coffee No Peace To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message