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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:20:30 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        John Birrell <jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bootstrapping FreeBSD/Alpha 
Message-ID:  <199801112020.NAA03212@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:48:09 %2B1100." <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> 
References:  <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>  

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In message <199801110548.QAA24424@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> John
Birrell writes: 
: I've committed a bunch of changes that allow FreeBSD/Alpha to be
: bootstrapped from an installed NetBSD/Alpha 1.3 system. The bootstrap
: is not complete (after 2.5 days), but it is in a state where people
: who want to play can do so using source that they are familiar with.

You have been busy.

: The bootstrap is not intended to clobber anything on the system you
: are using. It uses a modified makefile based on the -current make
: world, but unlike that makefile, there is no final install (yet).
: The bootstrap will abort long before that. 8-).

Good :-)

: 1.  Mount /usr/src from another (FreeBSD) machine.

Is this required?

I plan on playing with this this afternoon.

Warner



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