From owner-cvs-all Thu May 13 2:22:33 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67BE15613; Thu, 13 May 1999 02:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01432; Thu, 13 May 1999 10:19:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:19:36 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/texts/alpha INSTALL.TXT In-Reply-To: <19990513095152.A89091@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 May 1999 at 17:08:43 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > >> 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. > > You have told me that. Jordan has told me they're on the Toolkit > CD-ROM, and I see a reply saying they're on the Alpha Install CD-ROM. > INSTALL says they're on the CD-ROM. Don't you think there's potential > for misunderstanding here? The text should be changed to say 'Alpha Install CD-ROM' then. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message