"Chuck Guzis" wrote:
After watching an 800MHz P3 system build Gnome (and its
dependent packages)
on a NetBSD system, I got to wondering how usable NetBSD is on older slower
hardware, such as MicroVAX II.
If you want to build Perl or X or the kernel, what do you do? Start the
make and come back in a week?
last time I tried, which was admittedly a year ago, you could build netbsd on
any posix machine using a cross compile.
i.e. you could build everything for a vax using an x86 linux box.
The kernel would not boot on an 11/730, however. It was close and I
almost got it to work but gave up and went to 4.2bsd/quasijarus, which
booted right away.
[I did manage to make a boot loader which would load kernels via a qe ethernet,
if anyone wants that]
I have not tried an MVII, however, but I bet it "just works".
-brad