Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:29:57 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: deeptech71@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <200704061829.57355.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <4616686C.8000603@gmail.com> References: <200704051719.l35HJ2ZW018555@lurza.secnetix.de> <200704061227.11036.danny@ricin.com> <4616686C.8000603@gmail.com>
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On Friday 06 April 2007 17:34:04 you wrote: > Danny Pansters wrote: > > Might still be too little (or defect!) RAM. One other idea might be to > > add isa (you have pci and eisa), an old (isa-based?) mobo may need some > > crufty plug-n-pray stuff -- possibly even to get to the HD controller, > > I'm not sure. > > It was running windoze3.1 normally. I doubt about defective RAM. > > PCI is definitely unneeded, I only had it there to allow it to boot on a > new comp. But as I've seen it, it would boot without it: with the message > 'loading required module pci'. I don't know if it's an EISA or ISA or > whatever (google images show this and that..), so now I have 'device eisa' > and 'isa'. > > >> Oh and.. should I be using 5.1 over 6.2? > > > > 5 is dead. You pretty much must use 6 I think. > > floating point emulation... What about it? Is that required? The old proc > doesnt support it. It was removed since 5.3, I've heard... Unsure. I'd leave it in. > > I don't know if it will matter much in terms of required RAM but there > > seem to be various things you can take out of your kernel config. > > I68[5][6]_CPU, all scsi support, since you dont have INET6 you can also > > get rid of gif and faith. (I'm assuming that you do have a NIC that you > > want to load as a module and that you want ether and tcp/ip). Get rid of > > slip, ppp, tunnel unless you're going to use dialup. Don't remove loop, > > random, ether, md, pty. Also, some if not all parallel port support can > > probably be stripped out. COMPAT_FREEBSD[4][5] are candidates too, unless > > you want to run [4][5].x binaries. > > CPUs, SCSIs removed, faith removed. > Currently I don't have anything useful on the old board, such as a net > card, but I'm planning to use it as a router, and I should be able to do > VPN stuff. So I've left gif and tunnel and ppp. When I do have a NIC, I > will enable some NIC support. > I've never used a printer/parallel port or a serial port, but google images > revealed that I have them, so I've left them there. > I gather pty is for su's. Why do i need md? Maybe you dont need it. I thought because you're short on RAM it might be something that can be useful. > Well, if a standard 6.2 installation doesn't use 4.x or 5.x binaries by > default, like 3.4 binaries, then I will remove it. > Removed PS/2 mouse. Included MSDOS for mounting floppies. > What about apic? Unsure. Think it may be ditched. > Current kernel: [ATTACHMENT]. No CPU optimizations used, make.conf: > [ATTACHMENT]. Result: after the beastie menu, the kernel ticks for a half a > second, then the computer reboots. > > Hmf. No fun. > NEXT: I'm going to compile a bare kernel at some time. And see if it works. Good luck. Dan
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