Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well for one you should probably not try to boot an i686 kernel on a 486 It's not an i686 kernel. It's an i486 kernel with code to recognize and support i586 and i686 CPUs. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-06 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 06 April 2007 01:23:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I assume that you don't have enough RAM. If I remember correctly, your 486 machine only has 8 MB of RAM, which is not enough to load a GENERIC kernel nowadays. You will have to compile a smaller kernel by

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-06 Thread Danny Pansters
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

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well for one you should probably not try to boot an i686 kernel on a 486 It's not an i686 kernel. It's an i486 kernel with code to recognize and support i586 and i686

headed to Jupiter

2007-04-06 Thread Dan Langille
I'll be in Jupiter Fl April 10-14th... I have no idea how many of us are in that area -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/

Re: Terry Lamber's Mr. Bullet Mr. Foot quote...

2007-04-06 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Oliver Fromme freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't use spell checkers. Most of the time they break the spelling instead of fixing it. Spell-checkers are useful for pointing out casual typos and frequent misspellings (recieve, seperate, occured) or helping you with those