Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:19:03 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> To: Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AMD64 support in 5.x versions Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0401071115150.8910-100000@odin.cs.kun.nl> In-Reply-To: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE06@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Will Saxon wrote:
> It does boot multi user w/o acpi on my system, I can log in and do some
> things, but without network support I was not able to do much since I
> had no packages or port installation capability.
One option is to use some nasty leftover hardware from somewhere - for
instance, I had an old 3Com 3c905 (?) card lying around, used that for
initial networking, fetched the cvsup package from David O'Brien (?),
adjusted the supfiles (because it doesn't support compress - as noted on
the webpage, but not everybody seems to read that), updated to -CURRENT,
and went from there. In theory _everybody_ has a leftover PCI NIC
somewhere :)
> I plan to give it another try after -RELEASE and spend more time with
> it. Right now I am slogging through a "why did I let them convince me to
> use 'stage 1'" gentoo x86_64 install. I'm sure linux will work well for
> me on this system but after several years of FreeBSD use Linux feels
> like a wet pair of socks...yuck...
Reports I've heard - perhaps from James on this list - are that Gentoo
amd64 and the other available Linuxen are just as wonky, if you can get
them to compile at all.
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