> I loaded NetBSD/Alpha via the newest rz25 image on an rz26l disk.
> After it was loaded I changed the disklabel to reflect the additional
> space.
> 
> 1. When I try and do newfs of sd1g it complains Device not configured, what
> do I need to do to make a filesystem ther?

i'm assuming your system disk is sd1...

it sounds like you may have changed your disklabel incorrectly... did
you add the extra space on to the end of the 'd' partition, or did you
make a new 'g' partition?  (you should have done the latter, if you
wanted the space there...)

> 2. I am on an Alphastation 400, will X windows run on this? I do startx
> and it complains about not being able to connect to a socket and then
> core dumps.

There is _NO_ X server support in the latest release i've made.
(I do have a working X server for the TGA T8-* graphics boards, but
it's not included in the latest release.  Kernel support isn't
included in the latest release, either.)

If you have a TGA in your AlphaStation 400, then in all likelyhood it
will be able to run X when i make a new release.


> 3. I piked up the latest sources (from arch/alpha/95...) and built
> netbsd specifying the root as sd1. When it attempted to load netbsd it
> complained that in alpha/autoconf.c it had a call to setconf and could
> not find the function. This should have only been reached ifdef GENERIC
> which is not defined and the function is found in swapgeneric.c which is
> not compiled as part of this build. I commented out the lines in
> autoconf.c, rebuilt, and that worked.Does anything need to be changed to
> have this build without this moficiation?

if you modified a GENERIC kernel to get your kernel config, are you
sure you:
	(1) changed the kernel spec to be 'root on sd1" etc., _AND_
	(2) removed the "options GENERIC" line from your kernel config?

i.e. are you _sure_ that GENERIC isn't defined?

I compile kernels all the time which don't use "swap generic," and
things work fine.  (indeed, i only compile a "swap generic" kernel
when i'm building a release, usually...  8-)



chris