From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 11 12:21:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA02669 for alpha-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02650 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xrTs2-0004mZ-00; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:20:34 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA03212; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:20:30 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199801112020.NAA03212@harmony.village.org> To: John Birrell Subject: Re: Bootstrapping FreeBSD/Alpha Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:48:09 +1100." <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:20:30 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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