From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 11:56:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CD716A4B3 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:56:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D85E43FE3 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:55:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adridg@cs.kun.nl) Received: from localhost by pandora.cs.kun.nl via odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] with ESMTP for id h9RJts6G003471 (8.12.10/3.58); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:55:55 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: amd64@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:55:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310272055.54288.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Subject: bootstrapping X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:56:00 -0000 So, while I'm waiting for my K8V to be RMA'ed, I'm thinking about how to go about integrating this amd64 box into my network and getting it running. I gather there's no really working cvsup, and David's snapshot build from way back is (a) from wayback (b) unstable under load. I've got several running systems, both -STABLE and -CURRENT, with cvsupped /usr/src's. The /usr/src's are NFS exported, and I've got a spare cheap-ass NIC (yes, an RTL 8029). Supposing I boot a 4-STABLE drive with rl(4) in place in an amd64 box - what do I need to do to get it up to speed (heck, let's make it a 5-CURRENT drive, since we've got the 4-to-5 upgrade otherwise as well). - do I need to cvsup anything special? extra branches? are all the sources for all the architectures normally in a /usr/src/sys? - does X "just build" then? Getting all this (and the machine) together ought to take me a while, and I promise to be quite while that happens :) [ade]