[LV] Newbie - where to start?
prescott at phys.ufl.edu
prescott at phys.ufl.edu
Sat Sep 16 02:52:14 CEST 2006
Hi, all;
I'm also interested to help (VAXstation 4000/90), and am looking
forward to seeing any replies to Neale's questions.
Cheers,
Craig
On Sep 15 2006, Neale Banks wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> As the custodian of a VAXstation 3100 (KA42-A V1.2) who's finally
> organised some hardware for a build/netboot environment, what's the best
> way to get started?
>
> Looking over the website, the docs appear to be somewhat in need of a
> facelift :-(
>
> Presumably, a good start would be to set up a netboot environment and
> test that? Are there any sensibly recent kernel images available?
>
> Once I've covered that ground, where would I go from there - setting up
> a cross-compiler etc build system?
>
> Also, how far is it reasonable to diverge from "linux" issues here?
> e.g. poking around with machine-code a while back I noticed something
> "odd" - are such issues welcome here?
>
> Thanks,
> Neale.
>
> PS: My time is, to say the least and presumably like others here,
> somewhat limited - but hopefully I can contribute something.
>
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