Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Pansters wrote: 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

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread deeptech71
This is so goddamn. I've disabled almost everything in the kernel and the 486 still wont boot! OK, forget about the router, just get FreeBSD running on it! Any suggestions? ident BAREv6 machine i386 cpu I486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU #cpuI686_CPU # To

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread spellberg_robert
i've been following this because i have a compaq sitting on a closet shelf. mine has 40 megs of ram, so hope springs eternal [ just to prove i can really do it ]. i've let people more expert than me answer first, but i've played around with kernel tweaking and had some success, so i'll

[ot] seeking usa vendor of two_year_old technology

2007-04-07 Thread spellberg_robert
yes, this --is-- off_topic, but i --am-- going to install freebsd on them, so please don't flame me too badly. i've spent yesterday and today seeking a usa vendor of intel mobos. i'm buying parts for 12 systems, using the 865g, 915g and 945g chipsets and a mix of appropriate p4 and cd in

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
spellberg_robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do you need kbdmux in the console ? Only if you intend to use USB keyboards. ADAPTIVE_GIANT ? PREEMPTION ? INET ? UFS_ACL ? SCSI_DELAY ? KBD_INSTALL_CDEV ? I don't think you can build a kernel without INET, actually. ADAPTIVE_GIANT and

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread spellberg_robert
thanks for the info, des. [ i don't have any usb keyboards, so that explains that ignorance. if the kernel didn't build, i would add things back until it did. nonetheless, thanks. ] rob Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: spellberg_robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do you need kbdmux in the

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread spellberg_robert
ok - first, you have what des said and what i said back. that covers most of this [ must've crossed in the mail ]. all i'm doing is removing anything i don't recognize [ i am a minimalist at heart ], but my needs aren't necessarily the same as yours. as for 4.3 compatibility, i don't

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread deeptech71
spellberg_robert wrote: ok - first, you have what des said and what i said back. that covers most of this [ must've crossed in the mail ]. yeah i received his mail later all i'm doing is removing anything i don't recognize [ i am a minimalist at heart ], but my needs aren't necessarily

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread deeptech71
OK now I've tried everything. Most minimal kernel I could get without compilation error. No optimizations. And it still reboots the system! Something more: now I've tried to pull out the floppy cables, and that 4slot-isa expantion card stuff, played around with all jumpers (IRQ, EPC

Re: [ot] seeking usa vendor of two_year_old technology

2007-04-07 Thread soralx
i --did-- find one vendor, ncix, [...] I'm not saying stay away, but... Once upon a time, I had an urge to get a working SATA controller before the weekend [cheap, nothing fancy, no fake|not_fake RAID (if possible at all these days), just to make use of freshly acquired WD5000YS]. So on Flyday