Subject: Re: Question about installing NetBSD on a DEC 3000/300
To: None <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/08/2001 12:02:25
> From: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Question about installing NetBSD on a DEC 3000/300
> To: Tom Plagge <tplagge@charybdis.ellipsis.cx>
> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:46:08 -0500 (EST)
> CC: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> 
> 
> The process goes something like:
> 
> from /usr,  tar -xpzf srcsys.tgz        (check with a tar -tzf to see
>                                          exactly where it unrolls, but
>                                          I think it unrolls from /usr)
> 
> cd /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf
> config TWSCONS
> cd ../compile/TWSCONS
> make depend ; make
> mv /netbsd /netbsd.orig
> cp netbsd /netbsd.twscons
> cp netbsd /netbsd

How about

  ln /netbsd.twscons /netbsd

> sync;sync;halt

Save one kernel's worth of disk space.

Left over from the olden days when 2.5MB was a _big_ disk drive, and
you could run Unix (6th Ed) with two of those RK05 drives.

    carl