Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 15:42:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950616153634.20525E-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <9506161839.AA15927@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Marty Leisner wrote: > 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). Shouldn't this be in "freebsd-questions"? > 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). 2.0R binaries will not work with 2.0.5R kernel. > Sun needs swap space >= physical ram. Does free bsd also have > this problem? (Linux uses swap space just as incremental over ram). No > When I tried to network, it wanted th NE2000 at 0x280. > I have it mapped elsewhere...how do I get past the defaults? 2.0R -> Recompile kernel 2.0.5R -> boot with -c and change it > 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?) 2.0R needed space for extraction. > 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?) Are you going to run X or do software builds? If so, you will probably want swap. > Also, what's involved to cross-compile on linux for freebsd? Don't know. Read docs for gcc would be a start. Would probably have to re-build gcc on Linux from scratch, plus pull over all sorts of bits from FreeBSD. Probably be very difficult.
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