Howto run FreeBSD 1.0 in an emulator

[MG]

I have initially failed to install on a Large or LBA drive, so I picked largest CHS values. If your SD2IDE is fully software and uses .img as backend you can try booting the image I left on the google link. If it's 1:1 to SD card it's going to be too large.

CF cards are native IDE and ofc you can under-provision it with 504MB geometry.

Biggest issue with real hw is SCSI reliance for larger drives and CD ROMs, unless you have ancient 2x Mitsumi+controller combo...

Fastest way to get this to real hardware is to install on emulator, install distribution sets but no configure, and then dump the image to a CF card. The real PC should boot it, the disklabels should match.

SD2IDE is hardware. It has a Sinitech disk controller, which I think never existed. The device dismisses any PC formfactor. It's just a tiny board with IDE connector and female molex power entry. I still have to solve the old IDE-port connectors problem that 386 and 486 had. There may be jumpers...

 

[balanga]

If you really want to build on a modern FreeBSD it is certainly better to compile the old make(1) first instead of hacking up the Makefiles.

Can you see what is causing the problem in the output of the make in #14?

 

[gatekeeper]

Nice What a great tutorial!
You might also want to check out here:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAcaQiq14yw

It includes configuration of X, and also configuration of LAN.
Since this video, I ported 86Box to FreeBSD so that you can just simply install with `pkg install 86Box`
Note that while installing it warns about a script I wrote to pull the ROMs directly without hassle...

Enjoy and
Cheers!

 

[Zare]

Thanks gatekeeper for porting 86Box. I used to build/run it manually but before writing this tutorial