Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:37:13 -0600 (CST) From: "Loren J. Rittle" <rittle@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com> To: talbotn@sportsmedicine.com.au Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, dfr@nlsystems.com Subject: Re: 3.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <199903252237.QAA22350@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990325142350.009281e0@130.102.41.66>
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> i need a stable version [of FreeBSD/alpha]. is there such a beast or > am i chasing my tail. I can't answer that question yet, but I agree from personal experience that the 3.1-RELEASE boot floppies have some *major* problems. At the very least, I had been unable to get it to newfs and mount disk partitions properly before starting the install from CD-ROM. Other notes: The de device driver didn't like the 21143 "tulip" Ethernet chipset on my 433au motherboard (the device is found at boot time, but doesn't work for the install). The same was true of two PCI Ethernet cards I tried under FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE/alpha which use the pn and vx device drivers under FreeBSD/i386 (they aren't even recognized by the boot floppy kernel). I am currently trying Doug's suggestion to use these boot disks (he didn't suggest this exact version, but it was the latest on the suggested mirror): ftp://mirrors.rcn.com/pub/FreeBSD/alpha/4.0-19990304-SNAP/floppies/kern.flp ftp://mirrors.rcn.com/pub/FreeBSD/alpha/4.0-19990304-SNAP/floppies/mfsroot.flp with my 3.1-RELEASE CD. Make sure that you change the `Release Name' option to match 3.1-RELEASE. Otherwise, you will get a warning and the install will fail soon after that point. So far, this has worked *much* better than with the boot floppies that shipped with 3.1-RELEASE. My disk partitions were all created and mounted as I expected and the distribution is being unpacked as I would expect. I will send another message once I see how stable it is, but I wanted to report that using a later boot disk set was seemingly OK. Regards, Loren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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