Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 06:40:04 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: checking Message-ID: <199802181940.GAA00326@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19980219015149.29872@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Feb 19, 98 01:51:49 am"
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Sue Blake wrote: > There's a little DEC "multia" sitting idle here that will only be used to > telnet to the FreeBSD machines from the kitchen. I'm no expert but have time > to fiddle and nothing to lose. > > If we can be of any assistance, someone holler before I get around to putting > another OS on it. Holler, holler. 8-) There are a lot of things that are easy to do, but take time. There are *so* many programs in FreeBSD and they all need to be checked once they compile cleanly. You don't need to be an expert for this, just a user-space hacker. I have a bunch of mods to src/usr.bin programs to make them compile cleanly. I need to rescue my P5 from NT to check that these haven't broken the intel build. FreeBSD/Alpha is not ready to live alone on your disk. For the time being, until the FreeBSD built programs are known to work (the build tools already do), you will need to keep NetBSD as the installed operating system. And if you want to build debug libraries, you'll need a big disk (i.e. > 2Gb). I only have a 1Gb disk with source NFS mounted. I can't do a full bootstrap build without filling the disk. I've found a work around for this that allows me to repeatedly build parts of the tree (like usr.bin). Send me mail if you need any help. Regards, -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org; jb@freebsd.org CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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