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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:50:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Anthony O'Meara" <atom@atom.no-ip.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Error installing FreeBSD on Alpha
Message-ID:  <15807.11493.826652.148233@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <002301c27fa3$e9745fb0$0a00a8c0@atomnet>
References:  <004701c27f85$e6dcc080$0a00a8c0@atomnet> <15807.4715.826890.763769@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <002301c27fa3$e9745fb0$0a00a8c0@atomnet>

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Anthony O'Meara writes:
 > > The loader is apparently broken on your ancient hardware.  What
 > > version are you attempting to install?
 > >
 > > Drew
 > >
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > I downloaded the floppy images from FreeBSD FTP site, not sure what version!
 > 
 > I'm going to try and download several different floppy images now, I wasn't
 > sure what was causing the error, I thought it might have been hardware!
 > 
 > Surely it must still work on an older Alpha, (I got FreeBSD working on a
 > Pentium 100mhz, which is a lot older)


Let's just say that nobody who's really in the loop tests on old, slow
hardware very much, so if there is a problem, its much less likely
to get caught early as we have much fewer users than the x86 port.

Drew

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