From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Sep 12 18:59:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5CD37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480F543E4A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA21835; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:59:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g8D1x3M72806; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:59:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15745.18023.361519.337978@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:59:03 -0400 (EDT) To: Scott Sewall Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help installing In-Reply-To: <3D802267.4050403@ix.netcom.com> References: <3D7AA43D.9010309@ix.netcom.com> <15739.43458.696708.200577@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3D802267.4050403@ix.netcom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott Sewall writes: > > Drew, > > Thanks for you help. > > I swapped the cable to the other serial port and was able to boot the CD > and complete the install. > > Do you know if there is there a CVS tag for the 5.0DP1 snapshot? > > Hopefully I can use this box to learn more about FreeBSD and make a > contibution at the same time. > > -- Scott > 5.0DP1 was kinda weird, as they did the release eng. in Perforce. So, I'm not sure there's a CVS tag for what actually got shipped. I suggested 5.0DP1 because you could do a binary install. However, things have improved usability and stability wise since then. If you are planning to build your way to 5.0DP1, you might do better to just go all the way to -current. If you do, please let me know. I've got a patch I need sombody with an SMP alpha to test ;) Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message