From owner-cvs-all Thu May 13 4:11:15 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34E014CC1; Thu, 13 May 1999 04:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA69414; Thu, 13 May 1999 04:09:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Doug Rabson Cc: Greg Lehey , 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: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 10:19:36 BST." Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 04:09:17 -0700 Message-ID: <69410.926593757@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk It does. > 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 g ood! > > >> > > >> 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