I'm sorry to bother this list with this type of question, but I've
spent some time looking through the mailing list archives & and
documentation on sun-lamp, and I've not found anything thats much
help.

Basically, I've got DECstations, disk space, and some free time & I'd
like to try out the pmax port.  (I realize its in its infancy, I just
want to check it out and maybe contribute somewhat).  I'm running
Ultrix 4.3A now, and I'm wondering what I need to do to check out the
pmax port.

I assume I have to grab the source tree (the entire source, starting
from NetBSD-Current/src ?).  Then I need to build some utilities, such
as Berkeley's make, and versions of gas, gcc, and gld that write a.out
executables, as well as a NetBSD libc.a .

At this point I can build a kernel, right?  What I'm wondering is
what's to keep config from trying to look in /sys instead of
NetBSD/src/sys, and how do I convince the C pre-processor to look in
NetBSD/src/usr/include rather than in /usr/include.  And the same for
ld and libraries.

Now I build the rest of the tree (with the same cpp & ld questions
pending from above).  

If I make a filesytem with Ultrix 4.2 or 4.3a, will NetBSD recognize
it?  If so, I'm assuming that I can just copy the executables, as well
as /etc ..etc, onto a spare partition (or two for /usr) , plop the
/vmunix that I built above on there too, and boot from this partition.

Could somebody take the time to point out the holes in my assumptions
and to elaborate with more detail about what I need to do? 

If there is interest, I'll be happy to summarize the install process
if people can get me started.

Thanks & sorry to be so clueless!

Drew

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