Subject: FYI: new NetBSD/alpha snapshot (961127) available.
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/27/1996 16:06:33
FYI:

There's a new NetBSD/alpha snapshot, dated 961127, available from:

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/961127


It should include fully-functional EB164 support, as well as all the
fun stuff that's been made to work since 1.2 (e.g. crash dump
support, and a bunch of bug fixes).


There's one problem that i know of:

The little hack-ish rc script on the distribution image that's
supposed to check the root and /usr partitions, mount them
read-write, etc., doesn't quite work (since, because there's no
/etc/fstab, fsck needs to be invoked with "-t ffs", and i forgot
to update the script).  To get rid of that script and replace
it with the normal /etc/rc, you want to do something like:

        mount -u /dev/`sysctl -n machdep.root_device` /
        /bin/rm -f /etc/rc
        /bin/cp -p /alphadist/rc.real /etc/rc



chris