Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 22:29:40 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Turpin <mturpin@saturn.spel.com> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multia - Install success - 3.0-19981125-SNAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812052214490.4632-100000@saturn.spel.com>
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Hello, After an extended period (about 4 hours) of trying to find two good 3.5" floppies I successfully installed FreeBSD/Alpha on my Multia. Not too difficult, just took a long time. A couple of things I have questions on... I get an FDC: Data overrun or underrun error while booting the kern.flp. It didn't seem to be any problem, just an annoyance. Is this expected or might I have some hardware problem. Next question, How was the newfs done for the kern.flp image? However that was done it is the same way you need to make the mfsroot disk. I had to do the following to get the alpha to read the mfsroot.gz disk: dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 mount /dev/fd0a /mnt rm -rf /mnt/* cp mfsroot.gz /mnt umount /mnt I tried fdformat/disklabel/newfs about 5 different ways and it never found mfsroot.gz on the disk. I have a webpage that documents my process of installing the system. it's at http://www.mainstreettech.com/~mturpin/alpha.html Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Turpin | Consulting - Training - Network Installation Systems Engineer | Main Street Technology Centre | http://www.MainStreetTech.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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