From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 20 07:26:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12791 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:26:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12786 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup117.serv.net [205.153.153.146]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA16830; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980720072549.0080c490@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:25:49 -0700 To: Dennis Favro , FreeBSD-Newbies From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: FreeBSD under emulation (on a Mac) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's a good question. If it works at all, I think you will find that it runs faster than Win95. I just wonder if it will work. FreeBSD is EXTREMELY hardware-sensitive and hardware-aware, and probes for PC hardware directly at every step of the bootup procedure. If it finds a single thing it doesn't like, you'll be liable to get a kernel panic and boot failure. I don't know if it can be emulated or not. Why not give it a try - it's free :-) At 09:35 AM 7/20/98 -0400, Dennis Favro wrote: > Ok.. Does anyone here know how well FreeBSD would behave running under a >PC Emulator on a 133Mhz Power Macintosh? Is it worth doing, or should I >give up now? -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message