From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 23 15:25:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22004 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from assurance.rstcorp.com ([206.29.49.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21998 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:25:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vshah@rstcorp.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by assurance.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29915; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:25:15 -0500 Received: from sandbox.rstcorp.com(206.29.49.63) by assurance.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma029911; Wed, 23 Dec 98 18:24:17 -0500 Received: from jabberwock.rstcorp.com (jabberwock [206.29.49.98]) by sandbox.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14066; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:24:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vshah@localhost) by jabberwock.rstcorp.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id SAA74136; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:24:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:24:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199812232324.SAA74136@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> From: "Viren R. Shah" To: Mike Smith Cc: Stuart Krivis , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/alpha/3.0-19981208-SNAP In-Reply-To: <199812230845.AAA00564@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199812230845.AAA00564@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Viren R. Shah" X-Face: )~y+U*K:yzjz{q<5lzpI_SVef'U.])9g[C9`1N@]u3,MHY7f*l7C)[_NjM4y4K8$uIUh|\u (K&&HS6,M!61&GMTk'mqmB/Qg]]X}"?TzsFl]"2v!bl8']dma.:^IY^a[lbOI>U:b<~FyK3q-p{HmZ mn~g.`~BE!5{2D:}Yi+\_KkWe?XaHj9$ko1k8iKLYv5*_2c8"G=?Up[}hn+7RNM(bzBZ_wWk6!Pf&B ?3Tcm7M7B~W%K/I0aX3]*=jP?aM]H6HBPT`oLk+0n^_;N\2\%|Rhy;p}34Q.jEsM\qtnxcm;ag%Nq Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith writes: >>>> Stuart Krivis writes: >> How close is the Alpha port? I have an Alphastation 200 (avanti) that is >> currently running RH Linux. I could certainly play with FreeBSD on it if >> someone is willing to get me started, and if it is far enough along that I >> can actually get some use out of the box while experimenting. Mike> If you remember to swap to the emergency console on vty3 and run Mike> 'disklabel -B' before rebooting, you should be able to install just Mike> fine. Assuming you don't have a TGA console (which I do on a alphastation 200 4/166). Is this still a correct assessment? Viren -- Viren R. Shah || "I wandered lonely as a cloud" viren@rstcorp.com || -- WW Research Associate, Reliable Software Technologies Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message