Re: FreeBSD as host OS for VMWare 4.0

2003-12-31 Thread wmrfreebsd
>Anyone have any success getting VMWare 4.0 (Linux Version) to run on >FreeBSD Current (i.e. as host OS)? > >What versions of VMWare do work well with FreeBSD host OS? > >-Rick The way I understand it (I may be wrong), is VMWare does its magic by hooking into the kernel (to mess with pagetables

Re: looking for virtual machine for testing booting ISO images

2003-12-31 Thread wmrfreebsd
Bochs is quite capable of booting just about anything. The nice thing about it is you can 'edit' the CPU and have it print out what it's doing for hard-to-debug stuff. Just put your CD in your /dev/cdrom drive, then put these lines in .bochsrc ata0-slave: type=cdrom, path=/dev/cdrom, status=in

Installing on Miata

2003-12-21 Thread wmrfreebsd
I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Miata (Dec Alpha) system. It has the latest/last firmware, V7.2-1 The system has: 1) Qlogic ISP-1020 Scsi controller 2) DEC RRD46 CD rom drive 3) Segate 4GB Barracuda SCSI hard drive 4) Built-in 21143 ethernet 5) S3 Trio64 video card 6) 128MB memory