From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 17 11:43:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01102 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:43:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01089 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:43:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA01906; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:41:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199811171941.UAA01906@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: Where can I find FreeBSD for Alpha... In-Reply-To: <033b01be1231$ac070030$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> from "Alain G. Fabry" at "Nov 17, 98 07:53:30 am" To: fabry@panam.edu (Alain G. Fabry) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:41:21 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Alain G. Fabry: > Am subscribed to freebsd-questions and they mentioned there was an Alpha > port for FreeBSD. > Where can I find this to do an installation on my DEC Alpha? Not that I've been tracking the alpha port TOO closely, but I believe it's NOT for newbies, quite yet. I think there are SNAPs available, but they don't yet hold quite the same quility as the x86 counterparts. If you're feeling brave, and not completely lost, then I would recommend you to join this mailinglist and read it for a week or so, and pick up some vibes. Then go get a SNAP, or so, and try installing it. Also... first, check out this URL: http://www.freebsd.org/alpha/alpha.html second, if you're going to ask "can i run FreeBSD on this hardware" you need to tell people on this list EXACTLY what "DEC Alpha" you're talking about. There are quite a few models, and not all are supported. /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message