From owner-cvs-all Wed May 12 17:11:43 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E925F15258; Wed, 12 May 1999 17:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02365; Wed, 12 May 1999 17:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905130008.RAA02365@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/texts/alpha INSTALL.TXT In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 09:36:31 +0930." <19990513093631.Y89091@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:08:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Wednesday, 12 May 1999 at 1:17:06 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > jkh 1999/05/12 01:17:06 PDT > > > > Added files: > > release/texts/alpha INSTALL.TXT > > Log: > > A special installation guide for the Alpha. Thanks, Doug! This is good! > > I still don't understand this: > > The easiest type of installation is from CD. If you have a > supported CDROM drive and a FreeBSD installation CD from Walnut > Creek CDROM, you can start the installation by building a set of > FreeBSD boot floppy from the files floppies/kern.flp and > floppies/mfsroot.flp using the instructions found in > floppies/README.TXT. > > Is this a different installation CD? If so, you should say so. > Otherwise you'll have people trying to boot from the i386 CD, > especially since WC don't seem to offer an Alpha CD. > > This is a serious problem for me. I'm trying to get something about > Alpha into "The Complete FreeBSD", and I still don't know what to tell > them. Like we keep telling you, the Alpha install bits are ON THE SECOND CDROM. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message