From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 27 14:47:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1ABF37BAA0 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115244>; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:47:29 +1000 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Silly question on FreeBSD V4.0 Dist In-reply-to: <20000426105352.A34742@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:09:34AM +1000 To: User Raymond Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Apr28.074729est.115244@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <200004260331.NAA21450@gw.one.com.au> <00Apr26.134634est.115226@border.alcanet.com.au> <20000426193433.I1021@yedi.wbnet> <20000426105352.A34742@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:45:08 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2000-Apr-27 06:09:34 +1000, David O'Brien wrote: >On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:34:34PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> >> > - Do a sysinstall from the 3.2 CD-ROM (which had a bootable Alpha >> > distribution on disk2), extract 4.0 sources and make world. >> >> Are you sure 3.2 was bootable on Alpha? I'm pretty sure O'Brien added >> support for bootable CDs on 4.0R. > >Correct. Sorry, my mistake. The 3.2-R disk 2 _contains_ Alpha boot floppy images, though it isn't bootable itself. In any case, it's a way of bootstrapping w/o a good network connection. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message