From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 13 19:47:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21565 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21556 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22604; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:46:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: "Justin M. Seger" cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Steps to install on an AlphaStation 200? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:35:04 EDT." <199810140135.VAA02895@freebsd.scds.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:46:57 -0700 Message-ID: <22600.908333217@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi guys. Do we have a procedure to install the latest binary snapshot on an > AlphaStation 200? I have a NetBSD boot disk, and the latest FreeBSD alpha > snapshot. Any further instructions would be appreciated. The latest Alpha boot floppies are still a bit beyond the realm of bootability: -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh ftp-Free 255 Oct 13 18:04 CHECKSUM.MD5 -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh ftp-Free 2512 Oct 13 18:04 README.TXT -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh ftp-Free 2949120 Oct 13 18:03 boot.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh ftp-Free 2949120 Oct 13 18:04 fixit.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh ftp-Free 1474560 Oct 13 18:03 kern.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 jkh ftp-Free 853446 Oct 13 18:02 mfsroot.gz kern.flp would be a fine candidate, companion image to mfsroot.gz that it is, but it's unfortunately also got a gzip'd kernel on it and that's not really easily bootable. We need to get kzip working for ELF binaries before we can use that technique - either that or a bootable 3rd-stage boot block for the alpha which we can boot instead of /kernel and then use it to load the gzip'd kernel and mfs images. In any case, I'm uploading 3.0-19981012-BETA for the alpha to ftp.freebsd.org right now and it should soon be available from development/alpha - when the BETA directory contains more than one subdir, you'll know I've finished copying it. :) That should still install with NetBSD/alpha's boot floppy. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message