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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:36:10 -0600
From: "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu>
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Subject: Re: how to install on an Alpha cpu, no OS present, SRM console?
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Take a look at:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.2-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.2-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT

This should get you started.

-Joe Royce

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:03:50PM -0800, Kenneth A. Wolcott wrote:
> Hi;
> 
>   I've been doing lots of browsing and lots of downloading (FreeBSD 4.2 
> Alpha iso image
> and in pieces as well).  There seems to be little mention of any 
> specifics of support for the
> Alpha platform, other than it is supported.  I deleted my AlphaNT and 
> AlphaLinux OS
> installations on my Alpha machine and now I want to install FreeBSD.  I 
> have no OS
> present currently.  I am running the SRM console firmware since I was 
> trying to go to a
> Red Hat AlphaLinux installation (they no longer support the AlphaBIOS 
> firmware).  Do I
> just put the alpha version of the kern.flp in the floppy drive and turn 
> the beast on?  It seems
> like the installation chapter of the handbook seems to be very 
> Intel-centric.
> 
>   My wife has told me on no uncertain terms that the Alpha PC had better 
> be running some OS
> VERY SOON NOW.  I can't get AlphaNT to install.  I can't get Red Hat 
> Alpha Linux to install.
> Hopefully I can get FreeBSD Alpha to install.  I really don't want to go 
> to the hobby version of
> Alpha VMS (still better than AlphaNT!) or the hobby version of Digital 
> UNIX.  If NetBSD or
> OpenBSD are better choices for me on the Alpha platform, I'm all for it.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Kenneth A. Wolcott
> kwolcott@yahoo.com
> 
> 
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