Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:20:30 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: John Birrell <jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootstrapping FreeBSD/Alpha Message-ID: <199801112020.NAA03212@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:48:09 %2B1100." <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
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In message <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> John Birrell writes: : I've committed a bunch of changes that allow FreeBSD/Alpha to be : bootstrapped from an installed NetBSD/Alpha 1.3 system. The bootstrap : is not complete (after 2.5 days), but it is in a state where people : who want to play can do so using source that they are familiar with. You have been busy. : The bootstrap is not intended to clobber anything on the system you : are using. It uses a modified makefile based on the -current make : world, but unlike that makefile, there is no final install (yet). : The bootstrap will abort long before that. 8-). Good :-) : 1. Mount /usr/src from another (FreeBSD) machine. Is this required? I plan on playing with this this afternoon. Warner
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