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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:36:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Finally after 6 months.....
Message-ID:  <14987.59731.793186.82251@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59B026041EC@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu>
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Person, Roderick writes:
 > Finally, after 6 months I have got my home built Alpha AXPpci to boot
 > install FreeBSD and not get machine errors.
 > 
 > So for fair warning this being my first Alpha ever, I my ask stupid
 > questions so please bear with me. My first question is, where is the
 > Linux_base package for Alpha. I have search ftp.freebsd.org and
 > ftp2.freebsd.org and no luck, I went to the web site found the link and it
 > say the package does not exist. I know some packages are arch independent,
 > but I would not assume that Linux_base would be one. That is a correct
 > assumption, is it not? Well any help would be appreciated.

Extract the ports tarball, or obtain it via cvsup.  Then
cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base/ && make && make install

Drew




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