Re: What to do with an HP9000 D330?

On 2003.07.28 23:50 Monroe Williams wrote:

> What are my chances of getting NetBSD running on this thing? 
No big chances. There is a rather old snapshoot, that is all NetBSD has.
The problem is the tool chain. For a long time there was only a
i386-hppa cross tool chain. hppa was not available in the standard
in-tree tool chain based on GCC 2.95. But GCC 3.3 was imported recently,
so there is some hope that we will get a working tool chain. I am
waiting for this. I have several PA-RISC machines and some minor
experience in kernel hacking that I wane extend... 

> Would installing another OS that looks more likely to boot 
> (<http://www.parisc-linux.org/>, <http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html>)
> be of any use, 
Well. You could get the machine to run somthing, at least, when you
install Linux. AFAIK the Linux PA-RISC port is quite usable. 

> or would I be better off cross-compiling from another NetBSD system?
In theory you can cross compile NetBSD from any other POSIX system. 
But I suspect less problems when the build host is running NetBSD. ;-) 
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