Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:09:14 +1030 (CST) From: "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Steven <steven@trance.org>, <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: AlphaStation 200 SCSI woes Message-ID: <20020301150844.C570-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <20020301003729.GC11453@cicely8.cicely.de>
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How do "zero out" the first blocks ? On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: ticso:>>On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:30:31AM -0000, Steven wrote: ticso:>>> Hi, ticso:>>> ticso:>>> My machine is an AlphaStation 200 (200 4/233 with 192 meg RAM) ticso:>>> ticso:>>> I posted a questions to freebsd-questions earlier this evening (to which i ticso:>>> had no replies). I appologise if this is the wrong mailing to be using, but ticso:>>> I have been finding it really hard to find any information relevant to my ticso:>>> hardware. The original problem was about booting from the 4.5 alpha cd ticso:>>> (namely the keyboard stops working when the terminal type menu comes up). ticso:>>> Searches on google and reading the hardware.txt file were of no help. ticso:>>> Finally I found the archieves for this list and know now its because of my ticso:>>> graphics card not being supported. IMHO it would be *really* useful to ticso:>>> mention this in the hardware file. Although I have learnt a fair bit about ticso:>>> my system in the past 6 hours whilst trying to figure it out, other people ticso:>>> might just give up. ticso:>> ticso:>>It looks like sysinstall gets confused by the old disk content. ticso:>>If you zero out the first blocks you should be able to install. ticso:>> ticso:>>-- ticso:>>B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso:>>ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de ticso:>> ticso:>> ticso:>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ticso:>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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