Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:45:08 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: User Raymond <raymond@one.com.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly question on FreeBSD V4.0 Dist Message-ID: <00Apr28.074729est.115244@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000426105352.A34742@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:09:34AM %2B1000 References: <200004260331.NAA21450@gw.one.com.au> <00Apr26.134634est.115226@border.alcanet.com.au> <20000426193433.I1021@yedi.wbnet> <20000426105352.A34742@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 2000-Apr-27 06:09:34 +1000, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: >On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:34:34PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> >> > - Do a sysinstall from the 3.2 CD-ROM (which had a bootable Alpha >> > distribution on disk2), extract 4.0 sources and make world. >> >> Are you sure 3.2 was bootable on Alpha? I'm pretty sure O'Brien added >> support for bootable CDs on 4.0R. > >Correct. Sorry, my mistake. The 3.2-R disk 2 _contains_ Alpha boot floppy images, though it isn't bootable itself. In any case, it's a way of bootstrapping w/o a good network connection. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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