From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 6:53:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1790414D4C for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 06:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id IAA67573; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:50:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:50:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199909091350.IAA67573@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jake Hill Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running on Alpha In-Reply-To: <37D76C20.24EE1698@alien.bt.co.uk> References: <199909081835.OAA07861@misha.cisco.com> <37D76C20.24EE1698@alien.bt.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jake Hill writes: > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > > After several years of installing, using, and administrating FreeBSD on > > various Intel machines, I'm about to try it on an Alpha workstation. Is > > there anything in particular I should watch out for? Thanks! > > I think that nobody on this list knows the answer to that question. ;-) > Review the freebsd-alpha email list archives at www.freebsd.org > Yes this response is a bit of a troll, I admit. But after recently > asking an Alpha type question on this list and getting not one response, > I am starting to assume that there ain't many of us about! > That's because most of the people working on alpha monitor the freebsd-alpha list, not freebsd-questions. > I am a bit of a newbie to FreeBSD. I have it running here on some Intel > machines, where I'm doing some IPSec work. Our experience with Linux and > FreeS/WAN suggests that it is handy to have some 64bit hardware about > when coding. ;-) This is why I'm keen to get FreeBSD up on my 164LX board. > > It seems there are a host of FAQs regarding FreeBSD on Alpha which are > not answered anywhere (if they are, I'm sorry---I have looked and failed > to find answers to my question). Can somebody explain to me why the > -alpha list is no longer? I think the lack of any dedicated Alpha > resource is a big omission. > Subscribe to the freebsd-alpha email list and I think you will find plenty of people who will answer your questions. > Cheers, > > /.J > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message