From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 02:19:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8796C16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 02:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C979043D1D for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 02:19:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adridg@cs.kun.nl) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl by pandora.cs.kun.nl via odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] with ESMTP id i07AJ35D013650 (8.12.10/3.58); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:19:03 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:19:03 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: Will Saxon In-Reply-To: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE06@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: "Michael J. Pelletier" cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AMD64 support in 5.x versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: adridg@cs.kun.nl List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:19:06 -0000 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. -- Adriaan de Groot adridg@cs.kun.nl Kamer A6020 024-3652272 GPG Key Fingerprint 934E 31AA 80A7 723F 54F9 50ED 76AC EE01 FEA2 A3FE http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/research/