Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:07:20 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Pawel Nogas <pnogas@amu.edu.pl>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <20001012100720.A18613@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM %2B0000 References: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin writes: .. > > - 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? It is. It happened to me once, long time ago. I think the installer only checks which rev CD is in the drive, not which architecture it belongs to. W/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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