From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 15 6:36:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A08C37B6A3 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 06:36:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA16327; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:36:48 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id f1FEa3t57364; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:36:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14987.59731.793186.82251@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:36:03 -0500 (EST) To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finally after 6 months..... In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message