From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 11 17:49: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6615037B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA24488; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:46:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAuIaGHV; Wed Oct 11 17:45:56 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA10968; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:48:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:48:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: pnogas@amu.edu.pl (Pawel Nogas), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from "Andrew Gallatin" at Oct 11, 2000 09:06:30 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message