Subj : FreeBSD 4.3-RC buffer issue
To   : Brad Laue
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Mon Apr 16 2001 03:20 pm

Brad wrote to Lawrence at 01:43 15 Apr:

 TE>> FreeBSD for sure works on a non-Pentium machine,

 LG> version 4.x?

 BL> Yep :)

Cool.. thanks for the confirmation, Brad.

 BL> I've installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on a 486DX4 100MHz with 16MB of 
 BL> RAM, and then ran 'make installworld' from an NFS share, which 
 BL> installed i686 optimised sources (no way am I waiting for a 486 to 
 BL> make world :) ). It runs very smoothly.

Well.. friends.. there ya have the answer..

 BL> The one thing that needs to be specified, as you may know, is the 
 BL> CPU type in the kernel config file. 

Well.. no.. I didn't know that (yet).. but I guess that would answer my 
question about appropriate processor optimizations.

 BL> I had the opportunity to install it on a 386, but I wimped out at
 BL> the last minute. I'll have to give that a shot sometime soon. :)

That would be like.. start it up on Friday morning before leaving for work and 
check again Sunday night after returning from a weekend out-of-town trip? :)

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