From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 17 00:09:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA10582 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:09:30 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA10576 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:09:27 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23324; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 09:07:51 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA01705; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 09:07:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA07242; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 08:42:13 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506170642.IAA07242@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 08:42:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.Org In-Reply-To: <9506161839.AA15927@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jun 16, 95 11:39:58 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2207 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.Org Precedence: bulk As Marty Leisner wrote: > > > 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). Except for some system binaries (e.g. everything that deals with IP routing), it should be possible. > Sun needs swap space >= physical ram. Does free bsd also have > this problem? (Linux uses swap space just as incremental over ram). You are strongly urged to have more swap space than physical RAM. See Terry Lambert's excellent article on "his hobby-horse memory over- commitment" in Usenet (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc). I forgot the Subject, it was something with somebody who's been asking if it's possible to eliminate all panics. > When I tried to network, it wanted th NE2000 at 0x280. > I have it mapped elsewhere...how do I get past the defaults? Read the hardware.guide. (Folks, please READ the documentation, that's what it has been written for!) > Is there any documentation for the boot program? If you are refering to the boot options, no, not yet. However, it's not very difficult to understand. The selection for disk/partition/ file name should be self-explanatory, and the most important options you need to know about are: -s - boot into single user (requires root password if console has been made `insecure' in /etc/ttys) -c - run UserConfig -v - `verbose' boot, print more messages -d - jump to DDB before probing devices > The basic bindist says it needs 40 mbytes. Isn't it possible > to run a minimal system for starters (with about 20 mbytes?) You won't be lucky with it. > 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?) You should have 32 MB swap. Again, see Terry's article. (I'm using somewhat about 50 MB swap for a 16 MB machine, and i'm often reaching the 80 % level. Of course, this is with full-blown X11 and compil- ation and ... and ...) > Also, what's involved to cross-compile on linux for freebsd? Don't know if anybody tried this so far. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)