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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!das-news2.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!localhost!cgd From: cgd@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Building 4.4BSDLite OS Date: 18 Dec 1994 08:39:12 GMT Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 29 Message-ID: <CGD.94Dec18033914@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> References: <D0zz94.JLE@inter.NL.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lagavulin.pdl.cs.cmu.edu In-reply-to: jvisser@inter.NL.net's message of Sun, 18 Dec 1994 08:22:15 GMT In article <D0zz94.JLE@inter.NL.net> jvisser@inter.NL.net (J.C.W. Visser) writes: >I recently acquired a CD with the sources for the BSD 4.4 Lite UNIX operating >system. It clearly says in the documentation that you should have a running >system before you can build the OS. Actually, you can build and use various parts of the 4.4BSD-Lite system, but you can't build and use the whole thing (e.g. the kernel), because certain parts are not included (because they are the proprietary software of UNIX System Labs, now a part of Novell). If you're looking to run a 4.4BSD-Lite system on your Sun, you should grab the NetBSD 1.0 release for the sparc, available from lots of places, including: ftp.iastate.edu pub/netbsd/NetBSD-1.0/sparc ftp.netbsd.org pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0/sparc via anonymous FTP. get the INSTALL document in that directory, to tell you how to install. Full sources are available, and X11 is available, as well. (The INSTALL doc tells you where the sources are. the X11 binaries are at: ftp.netbsd.org: pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0-ports/sparc/X11R6, and should be on many of the NetBSD mirror sites, as well.) good luck! chris