From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 11 13:15:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from bobino.chemcomp.com (bobino.sefmedia.com [207.164.6.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06F837BD19 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abeaupre@chemcomp.com) Received: from ip234.montreal41.dialup.canada.psi.net (ip234.montreal41.dialup.canada.psi.net [154.5.52.234]) by bobino.sefmedia.com (NTMail 5.05.0002/NT6102.00.ff403942) with ESMTP id bbpgaaaa for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:15:46 -0400 Received: from sylvester [192.1.1.19] by chemcomp.com (FTGate 2, 2, 0, 1); Thu, 11 May 00 16:14:05 -0400 Received: by sylvester with Microsoft Mail id <01BFBB63.9A632B10@sylvester>; Thu, 11 May 2000 16:11:45 -0400 Message-ID: <01BFBB63.9A632B10@sylvester> From: System Admin To: 'Andrew Gallatin' Cc: 'FreeBSD Alpha' Subject: RE: Can't install on DEC Alpha 600au Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:11:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes, after verification, the kernel on the CD itself is Intel 80386 by = the file command... :( I feel so dumb. The problem is that I only have a 28.8 kbps access = here... It will take years to download the damn image.. And the box = itself is not linked to the net. Only local.=20 Nevermind.. My friend will make another one prompto! :) Thanks again, and sorry for the stupid questions.. A. ---------- From: Andrew Gallatin Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 3:56 PM To: System Admin Cc: 'FreeBSD Alpha' Subject: Re: Can't install on DEC Alpha 600au System Admin writes: > I'm beginning to wonder... How can one tell apart a I386 CDROM from a = Alpha one? I got this one from a friend, and maybe he could have = downloaded the wrong image, as I could not boot straight from the CD. Given that you're getting a syntax error when running binaries, it is very likely that you have the i386 CD. Can you burn your own CD from the iso image? Or install via the = network? Drew -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message