From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 2 11:48: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A44337B405 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f82IlqY22769 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 20:47:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA17206 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 20:47:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 25415 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Sep 2001 18:47:27 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 20:47:27 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Stephen Hilton Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <20010902204727.A25388@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Stephen Hilton , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:28:15PM -0500, Stephen Hilton wrote: > If I am installing FreeBSD 4.3RC X or the upcoming 4.4 Release on a 486 > based machine, how will this affect me. > > Is there a workaround necessary?, or will the system binary install work > fine? > > Could I run into problems with a later buildworld?, and if so is there a > procedure to prevent that? > It would be useful if you included some context so that one would know what you are talking about. From the subjectline I assume that you refer to the fact that setting CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf can cause problems in certain situations. If CPUTYPE is not set then you don't have to worry about it. By default it is not set. The releases are compiled without it. The only time setting CPUTYPE can cause problems is if you are building the world on one machine and then installing on another and the world that is running on the buildmachine was previously built with a CPUTYPE setting that the installmachine does not support. If you install one of the official releases and never set CPUTYPE then you will not have any problems. (At least not from this. Other problems might of course occur. :-) ) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message