Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 20:00:31 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: ks@hirvi.net Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box Message-ID: <199905031000.UAA16390@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199905030731.JAA30124@karhu.hirvi.net> from Kai Schmidt at "May 3, 1999 11:14:26 am"
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Kai Schmidt wrote: > On 03.05.99, 18:45:49 John Birrell wrote: > > Hi John, > > >> Its the second CD I think. > > Alpha really should have it's own set of CDs. Stuffing a few alpha > > bits in what are mostly i386 CDs continues to trip people up. > > This might be a quite good idea, but I am quite sure that this will happen, > when the Alpha version grows further. I suspect that it might grow further/faster if some of the rough edges were removed. One thing that has always differentiated FreeBSD is a neat install. Alpha needs work to live up to that. > > But to be honest, despite of taking the wrong floppies, I didn't face any > problems, usually I tend to install ports from the ftp ports server. Glad to hear you were successful in the end. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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