Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:39:58 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: bringing up freebsd Message-ID: <9506161839.AA15927@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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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
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