Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:48:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha Install Message-ID: <XFMail.980827214845.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808272204480.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson, On 27-Aug-98 you wrote: > 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. Thanx, Doug! Any idea when make release would work? (Just kidding! :-) I'll try your suggestions. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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