Talk:Installing 386BSD on BOCHS
FYI once patchkit 1's kernel is built, it'll run on Qemu!!.. and a zillion times faster to rebuild world that way...!
0.11.0 works great.. 0.12.3 not so great.
neozeed 03:12, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
I tried the windows package you made. Works like a charm. Judging machdep.c you can tone down -m to 64 though.
Yeah I kind of figured... It's like NT 3.1 back in the day, those boards could only go to 64MB, and we were RICH if we had 16..! I managed to build gcc 2.5.8 on 0.1 pl 24 (is that the right name for it?!), but where to go from here...? I guess X11 is the next big hurdle.. Then I guess Quake or Doom, but after that... I guess just a matter of keeping it around.
neozeed 17:29, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Well, machdep.c is easy to fix to support more RAM, but then I would be forking it into dugoBSD. That seems a bit out of scope here.
Not sure what Rodney intended with the version numbers, the last released kit is numbered 0.2.4-B1 or just 0.2.4. I suppose if Jolitz would have given his blessings the kits would bring it to 386BSD 0.2.4, but the kits remained unofficial. Patchlevel refers to individual files and count the number of times they are patched in this context, I think, w/ eg. wd.c going up to patchlevel level 6.
I don't think this needs to go a lot further, we have a description how to get 386BSD 0.1 to work and how to run the historically significant patch kits. OTOH, it is very cool to see how far this old geezer can be pushed. There is no limit to it. I will not rest until I have it run headless w/ sshd and operating a root nameserver *g*. Would be nice to get that 386BSD.ISO FreeeBSD hosts mounted, which brings me to X.
Check that CD, there is a bunch of X related stuff on it in dirs with `cons' in the name. At first glance patches and binaries for mono and color and few tools like xroach, xscreensaver. I didn't run into the full xfree86 sources on that CD yet, but you should be able to grab missing bits from what was in vogue back then from the first netbsd release (19 Apr 1993, is somewhere just after patchkit 0.2.2, even the binaries should be good).
Dugo 12:37, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
