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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:48:39 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
Cc:        pnogas@amu.edu.pl (Pawel Nogas), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233
Message-ID:  <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from "Andrew Gallatin" at Oct 11, 2000 09:06:30 AM

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Andrew Gallatin writes:
> - You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not da0a)
> 	-- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks.

How is this possible, using the system tools, if Alpha cannot boot
from it?  Are they broken?


> - You accidentally managed to install with i386 and not alpha
> 	distribution sets --- there are separate CDs for x86 and alpha

How is this possible?  Same question: is the install process broken,
in that it actually permits this to happen, ever?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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