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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:22:41 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Neal Horman <neal@wanlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boostrap - build world - mtree failure
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809230918550.8607-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980923000620.20418A-100000@wan2.wanlink.com>

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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Neal Horman wrote:

> 
> ok, following the steps outlined in the "bootstrapping" html page, i'v
> gotten an alpha 200 loaded w/netbsd 1.3.2.
> 
> I've nfs mounted -current as of 9/19/98 to /usr/src, and started the make
> buildworld... "make" seemed to build ok, but it barfed on mtree cause it
> can't find "-lmd". I assume this to be the md5 library "libmd".
> 
> Could someone point me in the right direction. I'm sure if i'm missing the
> md5 lib from netbsd, or if -current for is broken.
> 
> I'm looking forward to getting fbsd running on alpha, and maybe even
> helping to advance the alpha port as well.

The bootstrapping instructions on the web page are somewhat dated.
FreeBSD/alpha now has a native kernel.  Please try booting one of the
kernels at http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr to single user mode and if that is
successful, you can unpack the FreeBSD binaries from
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/alpha.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
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