From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 13: 5:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freyr.cba.ualr.edu (freyr.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A76137B42C for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by freyr.cba.ualr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA50828; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:05:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:05:14 -0500 From: "Joseph E. Royce" To: Charles Richmond Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of the Alpha port Message-ID: <20000822150514.A50333@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> References: <39A2C6F6.F1D3D1F0@sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39A2C6F6.F1D3D1F0@sitaranetworks.com>; from cmr@sitaranetworks.com on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:31:18PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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