Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:05:14 -0500 From: "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> To: Charles Richmond <cmr@sitaranetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of the Alpha port Message-ID: <20000822150514.A50333@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> In-Reply-To: <39A2C6F6.F1D3D1F0@sitaranetworks.com>; from cmr@sitaranetworks.com on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:31:18PM -0400 References: <39A2C6F6.F1D3D1F0@sitaranetworks.com>
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:31:18PM -0400, Charles Richmond wrote: > > Gentle pers > Perhaps I am just being blind )-: but info about the port to alpha > seems hard to find. Who is actually > working on the port, is there a different tree. Am I going to be able > to install and boot a FreeBSD > alpha? Snapshots? Alpha specific FAQ? We currently use FreeBSD on x86 > and are concerned > with multiplatform capabilities for our next generation. Thus I am > examining the 3 major BSDs to > help in choosing our next OS/version. Supposedly beast.freebsd.org is an > alpha running FreeBSD, > but which version ? If the port is not curently buildable/installable > can I get at beast to do an eval? > > TIA > Charles Richmond > Yes, there is an alpha port. A good starting point is to read: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.1-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.1-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT I find it very stable and reliable. I even have XFree86 running, too. -HTH, Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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