From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 20 1: 4:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C49174A9 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 01:03:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bottemanne@capitolonline.nl) Received: from capitolonline.nl ([195.121.168.14]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA63F2; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:03:48 +0200 Message-ID: <380D85CE.D69F9319@capitolonline.nl> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:05:18 +0100 From: Aernoudt Bottemanne X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot problem References: <8025680F.00504FF6.00@d06mta01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <14348.33521.475516.220514@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <99Oct20.081424est.40355@border.alcanet.com.au> <14348.61400.698033.324875@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Not True ! On the 2nd disk is the installation for Alpha. From now on eg further releases it will be a seperate distribution. Besides, there is a loader on the disk in /boot....... Why is does not work is something else. I still hope someone is able to help me out on this. The installation guide (in Complete FreeBSD) was written using a PWS433au, the same as I have, so it should be possible to get it up and running Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Peter Jeremy writes: > > On 1999-Oct-20 00:49:52 +1000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > >BTW, I've never even *seen* a 3.3 CD-ROM, much less used one. Does > > >anybody out there know if sysinstall is really broken enough to forget > > >to put the loader on the disk? > > > > There's no Alpha installation on the Walnut Creek 3.3 CD-ROM's. I > > thought I'd seen a comment on disk1 or disk2 stating that it was left > > off due to lack of space (but could be found on the FTP site), but > > can't find it now :-(. > > > > Peter > > Well, now. That would certainly explain why the loader doesn't work. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message