Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:22:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha Install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808272204480.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980827124139.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > How do I get FreeBSD to run on an Alpha Personal Workstation 433au? > > I have a NetBSD snapshot installed and it seems to work well. The first thing to do is to build a FreeBSD kernel and test boot it. There are patches to current sources for this available at: http://www.freeebsd.org/~dfr/alpha-sys-diff-270898.gz You can build the kernel on NetBSD and just drop it in the NetBSD root directory and boot to single user mode to test it. It should work fine on a 433au - I have one sitting under my desk :-). Going beyond single-user mode needs FreeBSD native binaries. There is an old, incomplete set at: http://www.freeebsd.org/~dfr/freebsd-alpha-280798.tar.gz Make sure that you re-build fsck from fresh sources after installing this set of binaries. With a bit of luck, you should be able to 'make world' to fill in most of the other gaps. You can get patches for this too at http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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