From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 11:37:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA11122 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:37:19 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA11114 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:37:18 -0700 Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.252.21.73]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14749(4)>; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:36:34 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27571; Fri, 16 Jun 95 14:36:24 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15927; Fri, 16 Jun 95 14:39:59 EDT Message-Id: <9506161839.AA15927@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: bringing up freebsd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:39:58 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I finally got freebsd 2.0 booting off a hard disk (I had to arrange it on the first disk, instead of the second disk). On the freebsd machine, I have a Sony CD-ROM drive and an NE-2000 board... Another machine is running Linux and is nfs'd. A few questions: 1) should I start off with the 2.05 kernel? Can I run the 2.0 release binaries with the 2.05 kernel (I have the November infomagic cd-rom). Sun needs swap space >= physical ram. Does free bsd also have this problem? (Linux uses swap space just as incremental over ram). When I tried to network, it wanted th NE2000 at 0x280. I have it mapped elsewhere...how do I get past the defaults? Is there any documentation for the boot program? The basic bindist says it needs 40 mbytes. Isn't it possible to run a minimal system for starters (with about 20 mbytes?) I have a freebsd partition of about 80 Mbyte -- how should I arrange it (I have 16 Mbyte of ram, do I need any swap?) Also, what's involved to cross-compile on linux for freebsd? marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001 marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom