Subject: Re: another how to kind of question
To: Arnold Robbins <arnold@cc.gatech.edu>
From: Dean Huxley <dean@fsa.ca>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/01/1994 11:45:06
> Assuming I get the system up to single user using the mini-root that
> is available, and I now want to recompile netbsd on netbsd, should I
> use netbsd-1.0, or netbsd-current?

I'd suggest netbsd-current, but keep in mind that things are still being
worked on.

> Second question, has anyone tried compiling and running either X11R5 or R6
> on the decstation under netbsd?

Yes, others have done this successfully.  I don't have a monitor so I
haven't tried.

> We have a lab full of these things that we'd like to run netbsd on (for
> teaching classes), and we'd need X windows.  Once X is up, we have motif
> source and could hopefully compile and run that on top (mainly for the
> mwm look and feel).

I'm not sure anyone else has done this on the pmax yet...

Dean.