From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 26 2:35:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C210B14C21 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 02:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA34851; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:34:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:34:53 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: William Woods Cc: FreeBSD Alpha Subject: Re: Installing alpha port from 3.1 CDROM....... In-Reply-To: <000001be8fb7$936353e0$204c93cd@william> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, William Woods wrote: > OK, I just bought the 3.1 CD with the Alpha distro on it. I know the floppy > images are broken, I am useing the 4.0 snap images on the web. My question > is this, I know how to change the distro name in options from 4.0snap to > 3.1, but the alpha stuff is on the 2nd cd in /releases/alpha/3 , hoow do I > point /stand/sysinstall to install from that directory. You need to go to the options screen and set the 'Release Name' to '3.1-RELEASE'. The install program should pick up the files from the right place automatically (I just tried this with my 3.1-RELEASE CD set and it worked with a locally built snapshot dated 19990221). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message