From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 12:14:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D808214D85 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 12:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23845; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:13:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma023833; Sun, 7 Mar 99 14:13:44 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id OAA07049; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:13:38 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990307141338.A6989@winternet.com> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:13:38 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Philip Rust , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy drive on alpha References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Philip Rust on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 01:54:26PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philip Rust wrote: > Hi, I am new to this mailing list and FBSD, but not new Unix, and am having > problems installing FBSD > from my floppy drive. I have a DEC AlphaStation 200 and am trying to > install 19990206-SNAP. I am able to create the boot floppies just find and > the machine boots fine, but when I go to choose the media type and select > floppies, I get an error message that tells me the floppy drive is not > found. Also, I checked the Hardware doc and made sure that the hardware > settings are correct. does anyone have any ideas? the command i use to > boot from the SRM is >>>boot dva0 if that helps. I would greatly > appreciate any help at all. thanks > -Philip I think that you have to network boot the alpha install. I don't believe that the floppy drive works yet on the alpha port. You might try searching the freebsd-alpha mailing list at http://www.freebsd.org/mail/ just to make sure. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message