From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 24 14:10:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F5412294 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA62913; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:03:15 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:03:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Don Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Don wrote: > > Off the top of my head, I would suggest that you have extracted an i386 > > binary set. I'm planning to do a few test installs tomorrow so we will > > see. > this was based on the boot floppies in: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/snapshots/alpha/4.0-19990206-SNAP > > This floppy booted and so did the one in 4.0-19990204-SNAP. I sent these > machines to the 4.0 Snap server and they went out and got all of the > information but died when trying to install the kernel at the end. > > Is there a problem with the floppy or with the server or am i doing > something wrong? I think that sysinstall must be using the wrong pathname on the snap server. I'll have a look at the code but you should be able to work around it my specifying an explicit pathname to an alpha snapshot. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message