Subject: NetBSD/i386 binaries
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/07/2001 14:18:23
Dear NetBSD/i386:

A couple of general questions, please:

1) What's the significance of the numbers displayed on the console just
   after booting starts -- the ones with the "spinning bar" to their right?

2) Does NetBSD/i386 code use features of the more recent Intel CPUs?
   I presume the answer is "yes", so I guess the binaries installed by
   sysinst from the distribution's *.tgz files differ depending on which
   processor is in the machine?

3) Leading on from 2), if NetBSD/i386 is installed on a disk in one PC can
   that disk be used in any another PC (assuming the swap space on the disk
   is appropriate for the amount of RAM in the second machine)?



Ray Phillips