From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 15:21: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D003011856 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA43533; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:20:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@Dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:20:39 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Markus Grundmann Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: A little problem with FreeBSD 3.0 RELEASE In-Reply-To: <1168512A0F6DD211A05000A0C941F9A10151C8@mail.ip-lan.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Markus Grundmann wrote: > > FreeBSD/i386 (host.domain.org) (ttyxx) > > login: If you have I586_CPU (I think?) defined in the kernel config file (as it is in GENERIC) and you have a true Pentium class CPU then FreeBSD will detect it as such. What you see above is the hardware architecture you are running on. Pentiums are based on the Intel 386 architecture (anything earlier is unsupported.) If you were running this on a DEC Alpha (I suppose) it would say alpha. Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message