Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:54:03 -0600 From: Mark Gooderum <mark@jumpweb.com> To: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Install on Multia Problems (SUCCESS) Message-ID: <50C732FEDE87D211954300A024786203A65D@archeron.good.com>
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Thanks to the helpful response from everyone. I was successful with an FTP install, although the process was a little odd. I had to boot with a serial console using the 4.0 snapshot (I used the latest one). If I boot with the "graphics" (real) console, 4.0 seems to not take any keyboard input when it gets to the terminal type prompt. By booting with the serial console, I was able to use something with VT100 emulation as well which solved my terminal oddnesses and let me get installed. In general, the syscons driver still doesn't seem quite right. The Multia comes up with a 48 line by 132 column display. Even with sttying the right size, the terminal emulation in even VI seems off, VI always has the cursor off by one and the screen doesn't update right except w/CTRL-L. Haven't gotten around to getting X and everything else configured, but it's up. Although now I'm intrigued...I'm labeled with a FreeBSD label. The Alpha Kernel seems to support FDISK labels just fine, just not the SRM console load code. So I'm curious if the the 2nd or 3rd level boot block could be put on a FAT partition on an FDISKed disk (ala MILO and Linux) and FreeBSD booted that way using ARC instead of SRM. This would allow multi-booting with Linux or NT similar to a PC, it would also allow a hard disk based media install as well. Hmmm. -- Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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