Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:13:38 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Philip Rust <prust@post.cis.smu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy drive on alpha Message-ID: <19990307141338.A6989@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <m10Jjgb-000JsKC@post.cis.smu.edu>; from Philip Rust on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 01:54:26PM -0600 References: <m10Jjgb-000JsKC@post.cis.smu.edu>
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Philip Rust <prust@post.cis.smu.edu> wrote: > Hi, I am new to this mailing list and FBSD, but not new Unix, and am having > problems installing FBSD > from my floppy drive. I have a DEC AlphaStation 200 and am trying to > install 19990206-SNAP. I am able to create the boot floppies just find and > the machine boots fine, but when I go to choose the media type and select > floppies, I get an error message that tells me the floppy drive is not > found. Also, I checked the Hardware doc and made sure that the hardware > settings are correct. does anyone have any ideas? the command i use to > boot from the SRM is >>>boot dva0 if that helps. I would greatly > appreciate any help at all. thanks > -Philip I think that you have to network boot the alpha install. I don't believe that the floppy drive works yet on the alpha port. You might try searching the freebsd-alpha mailing list at http://www.freebsd.org/mail/ just to make sure. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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