From owner-freebsd-alpha  Fri Aug 28 19:03:15 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26637
          for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (nomis.simon-shapiro.org [209.86.126.163])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA26622
          for <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org)
Received: (qmail 3079 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Aug 1998 03:04:32 -0000
Message-ID: <XFMail.980828230432.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808272204480.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
X-Face: (&r=uR0&yvh>h^ZL4"-T<Ako6fc!xyO!<qETO3]"NFbiV!}=/kj5G1L>H61PD}/|Y'~58Z#
 Gz&BK'&uLAf:2wLb~L7YcWfau{;N(#LR2)\i.l8'ZqVhv~$rNx$]Om6Sv36S'<b{Ioa^9\-Z$3!Z7-
 ;\X0`\'JZI~c>\~5m/U'"i/L)&t$R0&?,)tm0l5xZ!\hZU^yMyCdt!KTcQ376cCkQ^Q_n.GH;Dd-q+
 O51^+.K-1Kq?WsP9;cw-Ki+b.iY-5@3!YB5{I$h;E][Xlg*sPO61^5=:5k)JdGet,M|$"lq!1!j_>? $0Yc?
Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org
Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation
From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Subject: Re: Alpha Install
Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org


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 :-).


Ahmmmm...  Homw do I configure the kernel, again?

I am getting, from NetBSD native config all sorts of (true) complaints
about missing directories and whathaveyou.

Thanx,

Simon


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message