Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:22:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: imp@village.org, dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: Alpha Install Message-ID: <XFMail.980829222213.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199808292313.JAA20798@cimlogic.com.au>
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John Birrell, On 29-Aug-98 you wrote: > Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Ah. Now can some good soul actually fix the Makefile? Or am I > > destined to > > hack this thing to death? I do not mind, just tell me who wants the > > diffs. > > I am building all this on a clean NetBSD, form the snapshots knwon to > > install on this machine. > > Do you have a spare disk that you can dedicate to FreeBSD, keeping > the NetBSD one around just in case? If so, it will be a lot easier to > use the NetBSD tools to disklabel, newfs, mount and untar the tarball > in Doug's home directory on freefall, then just boot the FreeBSD > kernel and go from there. With FreeBSD tools, the FreeBSD kernel and > world builds normally. I can easily add 4-20GB to the machine. Once it is running FreeBSD, I will port the DPT driver and have even more space. The purpose of this excercise is to have a platform for writing the 64bit drivers for the new FCAL controllers. They are also all i2o but we will not start that argument, right? :-) Thanx, I am still puzzled by the make failure, but if having FreeBSD tools will solve it, then I do not have a problem. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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