[resend] Re: Announce DDB:

["Cherry G. Mathew" <cherry%mahiti.org@localhost>]

On ചൊ, 2005-12-27 at 02:41 +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> This is probably a stupid question, but: how and where to start?

Not at all... its probably not very obvious from the stub website that 
kochi@ and I put up. There's a link to a wiki there though, where most
of the
details are.

> I understand that installing pkgsrc/emulators/ski is the first step,
> but what then? Are there any prebuilt binaries (kernel, floppy/CD images, 
> ...), or do they have to be built? How?
> 

Since things are pretty much in dev, yes, you need to build both the
bootloader and the kernel.

You need to build the bootloader first:

cd arch/ia64/stand/ia64/ski
$TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-ia64
will give you a binary called 'skiload' which is the bootloader.

Then you need to build the kernel.

Its the usual: 

build.sh -mia64 tools
build.sh -mia64 kernel=GENERIC.SKI

Then just follow:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-ia64/2005/12/12/0001.html

http://cherry.beevomit.org/netbsd/index.cgi/SkiSimulator

> Having easily to follow instructions may help people following and 
> helping! (I just have a cursory interest in the port and won't be of much 
> help with the actual data; my focus is on documentation :-)
> 
> Maybe you can post some instructions that we can link to as "getting 
> started" from http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/ia64/ or putting it on the 
> port-ia64-FAQ.
> 

I think I'll do just that, but on the wiki ( I'm not an expert with
xml ).
Thanks for the suggestion!!!

--
Cherry