cross compiling freebsd for target intel platform other than pentium

[jonathan michaels]

greetings all,

my hopes for a good year and best wishes to all who congregate here
abouts.

i'm not sure if this is the best place to discuss this topic as i would
like some information about taking a -stable or most likely a -release
edition off of teh cd and installing it on teh host and then to bump it
up to -security edition while 'cross compiling' the whole box and dice
for the two production hosts (both of which are intel, supermicro
sourced motherboards off almost extreme vintage with 16 mb dram and a
couple of scsi hard drives hung off of an adaptec aha-1542b. both of
these machines have been running reliably for some 12 to 15 years and
as routers they do a superb job and i see no currently viable reason to
throw them out.

i have always been afraid of compilers (several severe mistakes in my
former life as a systems analyst that cost a lot of self-esteem credit
points that i am now getting over, thankfully). i know very littly
about c and gcc toolkits, i've been intimidated by teh whole
program/compiler mystique. some down to earth de-mystifying (especially
of teh way freebsd makes use of its make/makefile etc) would be muchly
appreciated as well.

i have tried to follow the documentation in teh handbook, i seem to
fail in the understaniding department (this happened to me all through
my school experience as well, i have difficulty with teh written
word

any words of wisdom, help and or guidance would be most appreciatively
accepted

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