On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 9:23 PM -0800 12/27/97, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> >I've recently gotten VirtualPC (Win 95 version) and I'm interested in
> >trying NetBSD-x86 on it.  Since I have no ethernet connection here at
> >home, the fact that the PCI bridge stuff may not recognize it really
> >doesn't matter much.
> 
> There were lots of postings by Greg.Earle@jpl.nasa.gov that you should be
> able to find in the archives.  (That should be his work email address.  He
> may not consider this discussion work-related.)
> 
> The bottom line as I recall was that it just about worked with FreeBSD.
> You needed a bootstrap (? or kernel or something) patched to use/avoid
> "mode 2" probes of the emulated PCI bus, and the emulated Ethernet card
> didn't quite work, but might with the new 1.0.1 (?) version ov Virtula PC.
> 
> Let us know how it goes.

Okay.  Will do.

> BTW I put your account back on macbsd-840av.jpl.nasa.gov.  Do you want
> anything out of any system space on the old setup before I reparition it
> out of existance?  I'm going to split the /mirror disk (sd3) so I have a
> 40MB partition for AFS.  Your home directory should be intact, but /users
> is now a seperate disk (sd2).

I don't think there was anything other than the crontab entry that did the
mirroring, if you want that set back up.

> My thanks to whoever fixed the swapper so you can just specify the swap
> disk in the fstab!!!  I really like using old/small disks for swap space so
> the seeks don't fight with other usage.  Now I don't need a custom kernel
> just to specify that detail.

Whoa!  That works now?  Cool!  (*thinks about all the things this makes
possible; wishes his old 540 meg drive were still alive*)


David

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