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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:24:46 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: E2?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808211023280.2954-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808210625.QAA08897@cimlogic.com.au>

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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, John Birrell wrote:

> Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >   Has NetBSD's TGA-E2 support also been added into the new FreeBSD Alpha
> > kernel?  If so is the install procedure still NetBSD->FreeBSD or has a
> > totally native install been devised?
> 
> Not yet. It's a manual install of native bits for the time being. Having
> NetBSD won't help other that to let you replace the contents with FreeBSD.
> Some of bits you might want are at http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/

We don't support any TGA cards which don't have VGA support at the moment.
It would still be possible to boot on a machine with a non-VGA card but
you would be stuck with the PROM console.

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