From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 11 16:23:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA23376 for alpha-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA23366 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous229.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.229]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14287; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 01:18:12 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA00679; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:42:35 +0100 (MET) To: John Birrell Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootstrapping FreeBSD/Alpha References: <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 11 Jan 1998 23:42:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: John Birrell's message of Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:48:09 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Lines: 11 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Birrell writes: > I've committed a bunch of changes that allow FreeBSD/Alpha to be > bootstrapped from an installed NetBSD/Alpha 1.3 system. The bootstrap > is not complete (after 2.5 days), but it is in a state where people > who want to play can do so using source that they are familiar with. Dumb question: is there a big difference between NetBSD/Alpha and OpenBSD/Alpha? -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/