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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:34:36 -0500
From:      "William Wallace" <ww@austin.rr.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   FreeBSD on Alpha problems
Message-ID:  <ODEMJJBMDNGMFJHKBCMFGEIADMAA.ww@austin.rr.com>
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I'd like to ask a general question regarding the Alpha port of FreeBSD.
Over time I've noticed that the Alpha "installer" (from ISO IMAGE) is not as
"robust" as the i386 one.  In the past (4.5-RELEASE), there were many errors
during installation that had to be basically ignored.  Recently, after
deciding to install my Alpha server from scratch, I noticed two things:

1) The 4.6.2-RELEASE ISO images don't exist, there's been a "README.TXT"
file on the ftp server that indicates that the alpha ISOs would be available
in 48 hours ever since the i386 ISOs showed up.

2) The 4.6-RELEASE ISO images look better than the old 4.5 ones (no more
errors when "downloading"), but the install process halts after installing
files to disk saying that the INDEX file for the packages does not exist.
After this, installations is "complete", but the subsequent steps for
configuring the console, installing X and a window manager, configure
security and inetd, etc., etc. are skipped (I assume because of the error).
Basically any additional configuration is to be done by hand.

Is there a reason for this?  It certainly would be nice if FreeBSD could be
installed on Alpha as cleanly as on i386.

Another point of interest:  Apparently the version of OpenSSH installed with
the base system has problems with privilege separation, whereas the version
that can be installed from ports (openssh-portable) does not.  They report
the exact same version, yet the base system one reports some sort of "read
error" when a client tries to connect, and terminates the connection
immediately, whereas the ports version, using
"sshd_program=/usr/local/sbin/sshd" in rc.config, works just fine with an
identical config file.

Also, looking into the future of the Alphas (or the absence of one).  Will
FreeBSD on Alpha be discontinued any time in the near future?


- William.




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