From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 19 6:59: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.imation.com (mail2.imation.com [207.242.212.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AD5F14F70 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 06:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danarchy@endeneu.com) Received: from im003935 ([207.242.212.2]) by mta1.imation.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.4 (830.2 3-23-1999)) with SMTP id 86256758.004C8602; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:55:50 -0500 From: "Dan Dockery" To: "Doug Rabson" Cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:51:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Dan Dockery" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Standard (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Disk errors when running sysinstall Message-Id: <19990419135903.3AD5F14F70@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >The install program for 3.1 on the alpha is seriously broken. You would >problably do better to download more recent floppy images from >ftp.freebsd.org and try to install with them. Ah ha. I get it. I actually did download them yesterday, but I bet I should be downloading them from snapshots rather than from releases. It would be helpful if someone would update the readme.txt from the releases to suggest that the boot floppy is badly broken. Thanks for the tip. I'll try the newer floppies tonight. -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message