From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Aug 27 14:23:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02849 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02814 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA11142; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:22:01 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:22:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha Install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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