From owner-freebsd-small Tue Mar 14 17:22:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C5837B859; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA53814; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:22:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , Albert Yang , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does Picobsd work on Alpha's? In-Reply-To: <200003141902.MAA45656@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200003141834.KAA01300@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > I was wondering if PicoBSD works on DEC Alpha's... > : > : PicoBSD is just a toolset for packaging FreeBSD. It'd probably "just > : work" for Alpha systems, yes. > > I'd expect the size of the kernel and tools might preclude using it > from a 1.44MB floppy, however. Don't know about a 2.88MB disk. Of course the kernel config, bootloader, compiler configs, etc. would have to be adapted for Alpha, if you aren't building on another Alpha. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message