Re: 3.4 install failed on my old 486 Compaq

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

François Chambaud wrote:
...
> 
> Thank you Kenneth and Nick for the quick answers.
> 
> There is really a fdisk.core file that I can see when I hit the
> Ctrl+C keys, but this file is big. Can I include it directly on that
> list for a possibly FPU patch? I'm ready to test that if you want before
> I change my hardware.

No need.  The problem is very reproducable, known, and being looked
at.  I also have a few 486SX chips and machines to put them in, and
80386 systems which can have their 80387 removed for testing when any
of the developers have anything to test...  oh, and an 80386SX/16MHz
system waiting to be the slowest OpenBSD system around. 8)  (Miod
thinks he has something slower, but considering the size of the i386
GENERIC kernel, the 12M RAM maximum capacity of this box should keep
me swapping enough for an 'ls' to "win" this contest. 8)

> I think that the best thing to do is to replace my CPU for a DX, or buy
> a brand new Soekris from Wim ;-)

yep.  Either will work fine. 8)
Or if you end up in Germany, I gave Henning a 486 accelerator chip
just because he said he didn't want it. 8)

Nick.
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