Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:05:29 +0100 From: spellberg_robert <emailrob@emailrob.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <46180799.5070400@emailrob.com> References: <46180A09.5020003@gmail.com>
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i've been following this because i have a compaq sitting on a closet shelf. mine has 40 megs of ram, so hope springs eternal [ just to prove i can really do it ]. i've let people more expert than me answer first, but i've played around with kernel tweaking and had some success, so i'll throw in my $0.02. take out absolutely --everything-- not related to the hard_drive, the keyboard and the crt, even though there are other things that are important, like networking. if you can't get this to come up, it may be time for a good scotch and some wistful memories. kill the remaining pseudo_devices. do you need kbdmux in the console ? ADAPTIVE_GIANT ? PREEMPTION ? INET ? UFS_ACL ? SCSI_DELAY ? KBD_INSTALL_CDEV ? you get the idea. once you get it working, you can always add things back, one at a time. when it fails, you know your limit. i do admire your stick_to_it_iveness. but, remember, new two_year old technology is pretty cheap, when you can find it. can't promise this will work. hope it helps. rob deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > This is so goddamn. I've disabled almost everything in the kernel and > the 486 still wont boot! > > OK, forget about the router, just get FreeBSD running on it! Any > suggestions?
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