Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:15:43 +0200 From: Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Alpha and labels stuff Message-ID: <1058339743.3f14fb9f3f7ac@www.swissgeeks.com>
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Hi! I'm new to Alpha. I just received an EV56 (on PC164) with 256 Mb RAM. Since I was not able to find any SCSI card which work on the installed SRM (no update available) I decided to use an IDE HD and an IDE CD-ROM drive. I'm having problems with IDE2 (maybe it's just something like I have to enable it but I didn't go further into that) so I'm using IDE1. On Master I have a 3.4 Gb HD and on Slave I have the CD-ROM drive. When booting the system, I can see dqa0 and dqa1 through "show dev". So I downloaded FBSD 5.1-R, burnt it and booted it on my alpha (boot dqa1). The installation process starts successfully and I can see it detects both the HD and the CDROM (SCROLL-LOCK -> UP). So I choose to start the installation just like I did for many x86 machines but when I come to create the labels in the "FreeBSD Disklabel Editor" it says: "You can only do this in a master partition (see top of screen)" Quite the same thing if I push "A". Under x86 you have to fdisk to create a slice and then you can create the labels. Someone told me Alphas don't use slices. So I believe the guy (who is actually a kernel hacker hehe so Hi if you're on this list :D). The problem is that there's nothing at the top of the screen. I know I should see 3.4Gb but it's not there! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee - Quark Media House Switzerland Mail: pbrossin_AT_swissgeeks(dot)com Web: http://www.swissgeeks.com
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