Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:15:39 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: latest install stuff not working? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901202214390.25292-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990121004458.7759A-100000@callisto.fortean.com>
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When I said 'bootstrapping' I meant from the point of view of making a filesystem and using a boot block. I actually took the bin files and ran install.sh on them for the most recent FreeBSD snap, did some hand editting of conf files and I was ready to rock && roll. > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > After 'bootstrapping' myself with NetBSD on an alphastation 600, I now am > > running on the multia (haven't got syscons to print a prompt to the > > monitor yet tho) > > I tried this not too long ago from NetBSD-current (1.3H) on my Personal > Workstation 500au and a src/ tree from approximately 8-9 days ago. The > results were, well, not good :( I had thought it might no longer be > possible to bootstrap from NetBSD. > > Is there some instructions I'm missing outside of mounting the FreeBSD > source tree on /usr/src, creating /usr/obj and running: > > make -m /usr/src/share/mk buildworld ??? > > I was able to get some milage out of it, but had some problems with mtree. > I found removing -lmd from the mtree Makefile allowed the build to > progress for the first two or three times mtree gets built, but finally > fails with linker errors on attempting to find MD5File. > > - Bruce > > ______________________ > Bruce M. Walter, Principal > NIXdesign Group Inc. > > 426 S. Dawson Street > Raleigh NC 27601 USA > 919.829.4901 Tel > 919.829.4993 Fax > http://www.nixdesign.com > > Visual communications | concept + code > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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