I used a CDR and made a boot cd from the image and it worked fine.  Took a
bit to get things running as the docs are vauge, but the kind people in
#NetBSD on EFNET helped me a bit.  Thanks to everyone here for your help as
well.  I installed gmake too but Im having problem getting mysql to compile.
Im including the error message I got from the compile.

gmake[3]: Entering directory `/root/mysql-3.23.16-alpha/sql'
c++ -DMYSQL_SERVER                      -DDEFAULT_MYSQL_HOME="\"/usr/local\"
"
                -DDATADIR="\"/usr/local/var\""                  -DSHAREDIR="
\"/u
sr/local/share/mysql\""                         -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../mit-pth
read
s/include -I./../include                        -I./../regex
-I. -I../include -I.. -I.  -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include  -O3 -DDBUG_OFF  
 -fn
o-implicit-templates  -c sql_yacc.cc
/usr/lib/bison.simple: In function `int yyparse()':
/usr/lib/bison.simple:761: virtual memory exhausted
gmake[3]: *** [sql_yacc.o] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/root/mysql-3.23.16-alpha/sql'
gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/root/mysql-3.23.16-alpha/sql'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/mysql-3.23.16-alpha'
gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


If anyone has an idea let me know please.


Bryan
iceberg@nxco.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <ross@ghs.com>
To: <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>; <iceberg@nxco.com>
Cc: <port-alpha@mail.netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Re(2): Re(2): 3000/600


> Let us know how it goes. Note that there may be some PeeCee rom burner
> utilities that don't actually let you write a raw file to the disk, and
> it's also likely that it will be an obscure option. (It's trivial with
> cdrecord, of course, since that's ALL cdrecord ever does. :-) At least
> one PeeCee program will let you write a bitwise image, but only if the
> bitwise image is itself in iso9660 format. (Sigh.) Also, your old 3000,
> unless it has recently received an upgrade with a rare SCSI reader, will
> absolutely not be able to read a CD-RW, but will handle CD-R just fine.
>
> ross
>
> >> From: iceberg@nxco.com (Bryan McWhirt)
> >>
> >> OK, well I will have to go over the docs for nero burnning rom to
figure
> >> that out then.   I ran out of HD space on my PC for the 3rd time and am
> >> waiting on the finances to get a 30G HD (so if anyone wants to buy a
> >> slightly used Kodak DC265 digi-cam let me know).  Anyway I ended  up
> >> deleteing my old linux partition for space and pulled out this DEC
Alpha
> >> 3000/600 to play on.  Asuming I do get it running.  Thanks for the help
> >> EVERYONE.
> >>
> >>
> >> Bryan
> >> iceberg@nxco.com
> >>
> >> gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com writes:
> >> >Bryan McWhirt writes:
> >> >> So it's an ISO not an actual file?  The actual documentation in that
> >> >> directory were extreamly vauge.
> >> >
> >> >No it is not an ISO. :-)  Yes, now it is really confusing.  Basically
> >it
> >> >is an "image" that more or less is just like the first few meg of
> >> >a hard drive.  It has the normal boot sector, bootstrap, and kernel
> >just
> >> >like it would be on a hard drive. (hence the cdhdtape)
> >> >The boot sector has some magic that convinces the alpha it is a nice
> >> >bootable device when it is written to a CD a HD, or a TAPE.
> >> >
> >> >I will agree that the README.files doesn't clearly say that the image
> >> >should be written directly to a CD in "raw" mode.  It shows examples
> >> >of a hard drive or tape though that, I guess, are meant to be
> >> >extrapolated.
> >> >:)  If you were to come up with an improved paragraph about 'cdhdtape'
> >and
> >> >file a bug report via 'send-pr' it would probably get fixed.
> >> >
> >> >Anyway, you should be able to write it out raw with cdrecord under
> >NetBSD,
> >> >or via something like NERO (http://www.ahead.de/) under Windows.
> >> >
> >> >-Andrew
> >> >--
> >> >-----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >Andrew Gillham                            | NetBSD ist Affengeil.
> >> >gillham@whirlpool.com                     | Nachts ist es kaelter
> >> >I speak for myself, not for my employer.  | als draussen.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>