cross compiling freebsd for target intel platform other than pentium

[jonathan michaels]

freddie,

received with thanks and appreciations

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:28:00PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:

> On January 8, 2004 01:14 pm, jonathan michaels wrote:

> > i'm not sure if this is the best place to discuss this topic as i

> On the build box, edit /etc/make.conf and set CPUTYPE to the CPU type of 
> the old boxes.  For instance, set this to 486 if the old boxes are 
> 486s, and so on.  You may need to copy the default file 

yes, standard intel chipset (late 1980 to early 1990 '486 and a
surviving pair of '386s with genuine 33 mhz '387's, history or
nostalgia .. grin, i'm not sure which.  

i've managed to grasp teh basic concepts and understand teh process,
freddie, thank you, muchly appreciated.

a tape-backup-server needs be built (from a brace of recently aquired
tandberg (525 mb scsi) streamers frm scraped old dec scsi expansion
boxes. 

> The comments in /etc/make.conf and /usr/src/README, /usr/src/UPDATING, 
> and /usr/src/Makefile explain quite nicely how the buidlworld process 
> works and how it uses the variables in /etc/make.conf to control 

these are now top of my reading list.

thank you for a place to start, and a plan to start with.

muchly appreciated

regards

jonathan

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