Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: (Pawel Nogas) <pnogas@amu.edu.pl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <XFMail.001012114712.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <14822.97.297867.857108@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 12-Oct-00 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > John Baldwin writes: > > > > Hmmm. If you booted from alpha floppies and tried to use the x86 CD > > I'm not sure it would catch the error. If you booted the CD then you > > This was common (at least a few people complained about it) around > the time of 4.0-release. > > People started getting x86 4.0 CDs in the mail. It wasn't terribly > clear they were x86 only. Some people erroniously thought it had > alpha bits on it too, but just didn't boot on alpha. They downloaded > floppies. Threw CD in when sysinstall asked for media. Sysinstall > installed x86 binaries. People complained that their system wouldn't > boot. > > Never underestimate the ability of people hang themselves when given > sufficient rope :-( All the more reason to change the x86 CD's to say 'FreeBSD/x86'. *prod* *prod* > Drew -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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