From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 14 17:47:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5BD16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B4243D55 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:47:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from santanu@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk) Received: from hep.phy.cam.ac.uk ([81.97.213.96]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com ESMTP <20040515004710.AKS15718.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>; Sat, 15 May 2004 01:47:10 +0100 Message-ID: <40A568A6.7030100@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 01:47:34 +0100 From: Santanu Das User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Williams References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 00:47:40 -0000 Hi, At present Digital Unix is running on the system, I just want to remove that want to install fresh copy of FreeBSD. Do I need to format the disk before start FreeBSD installation? Is there any option from SRM console to do that? Santanu Dan Williams wrote: >Hi, > >I'm running 5.1-RELEASE on an AS 1000A 5/400, but again that's an EV5 and >not an EV4 like the 4/266 would have... I would assume it works though. > >Dan > >On Fri, 14 May 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > >>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:11:10PM +0100, Santanu Das wrote: >> >>Not 5.2.1 because we do not have that model at work anymore, but previously >>4.x ran fine on these machines. I had EV5 CPUs in ours though. >> >>Have you read the Alpha version of HARDWARE.TXT? That has more info >>on the various Alpha models. >> >>Wilko >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>This is the first time I'm trying FreBSD and even more, the very first >>>on a AlphaServer. I downloaded four iso images namely, >>>5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-bootonly.iso, 5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-disc1.iso, >>>5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso and 5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso from >>>mirror side. Do I need to burn all these images? >>> >>>Did any ever body install FreeBSD on that particular machine (AS 1000A >>>4/266) or know about any known constraint? >>>Any related information would be much more appreciate!!! >>> >>>Santanu >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>---end of quoted text--- >> >>-- >>Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > >