From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 4 13:20:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22937 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from 3rdrock.coserve.org (3rdrock.coserve.org [198.213.49.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22886 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fabry@panam.edu) Received: from earth (earth.coserve.org [198.213.49.85]) by 3rdrock.coserve.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA02505 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:16:53 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <051001be5084$49745b20$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> From: "Alain G. Fabry" To: Subject: Install procedure of FreeBSD on Alpha Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:21:10 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to install FreeBSD on an DEC Alpha 4/166. Can somebody inform me how I can make this sucker boot from the floppy to start the FreeBSD installation. I have installed FreeBSD on a couple PC's but am pretty new to the Alpha environment. I have created the bootable disk using fdimage, plugged this disk in the system, entered boot dva0 the system then tries to access the floppy, and returns: block 0 of dva0 is not a valid boot block bootstrap failure Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Alain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message