Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:12:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 Message-ID: <200007220012.RAA01937@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:57:08 PDT." <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000721135228.22357B-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu>
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> At least for myself and several others who had this problem: > > you will never get to the install setup up if your system already has a > BSD (Tru64/NetBSD/Linux (using BSD disk label) and from Matt's example, a > FreeBSD disk with the /sbin/init clobbered) or OpenVMS system disk. Hang on; this doesn't make sense. Does Matt's comment imply that if you boot an Alpha setup instance over a FreeBSD system with an *intact* /sbin/init, things work? I've tested _that_, and it certainly works fine here. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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