From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 15 11:31:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEC814BD5 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id MAA03966; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:28:05 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199904151828.MAA03966@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on 164SX board In-Reply-To: from "erik@habatech.no" at "Apr 15, 1999 2:54:48 pm" To: erik@habatech.no Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:28:05 -0600 (MDT) Cc: scot@london.virgin.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org erik@habatech.no wrote... > > On 15-Apr-99 Scot Elliott wrote: > > Yes - my mistake - QLogic is what I meant rather than Symbiosis - sorry. > > I haven't yet installed FreeBSD on my Alpha, but I suspect that if I did, > > then I'd try to arrange a boot from a small IDE drive, but use the Adaptec > > card once the kernel was loaded. > > > This sounds like a good idea. Now I just have to figure out how to do it. > Probably a great step closer to a working solution, now. > But I am always open for input from users who actually installed FreeBSD on > such a system. Just as a warning -- I don't think the Adaptec driver is functional on the Alpha yet. Justin has put a 7891 board in the Alpha in my office, and intends to get the driver working, but he hasn't gotten around to it yet. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message