From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 9 16:21:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA01074 for alpha-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:21:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA01037 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA11737; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:20:18 -0800 (PST) To: Curt Sampson cc: Terry Lambert , jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au, jim.king@mail.sstar.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jan 1998 12:21:17 PST." Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 16:20:18 -0800 Message-ID: <11733.884391618@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Indeed. That's why we have sysinst currently running on arm32, > i386, pc532 and pmax, and are busy adding the MD stuff for it to > other ports. Now I'll admit sysinst still needs a bunch of work to > come up to the level of the FreeBSD install, but it's not rocket > science. Hmmmm. I'd be interested to see the approach you guys have taken. As someone who's long been reviewing just what it would take to rip sysinstall screaming out of FreeBSD and replace it with something far better, I'm curious to see what your own design goals and methodologies are! Jordan