From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 28 21:34:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4560137B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g215XXF09086 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:03:33 +1030 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:04:31 +1030 Received: from salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au (salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.9]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id PAA27768; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:56:02 +1030 (CST) Received: from squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.75.211]) by salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id FVNBWJYS; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:56:00 +1030 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:49:47 +1030 (CST) From: "Wilkinson,Alex" X-X-Sender: wilkinsa@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au Reply-To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au To: "Wilkinson,Alex" Cc: Bernd Walter , Steven , Subject: Re: AlphaStation 200 SCSI woes In-Reply-To: <20020301150844.C570-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Message-ID: <20020301154910.R7809-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sorry about that typo: How do you "zero out" the first blocks ? On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: Alex.W:>> Alex.W:>> Alex.W:>>How do "zero out" the first blocks ? Alex.W:>> Alex.W:>> Alex.W:>>On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: Alex.W:>> Alex.W:>>ticso:>>On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:30:31AM -0000, Steven wrote: Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> Hi, Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> My machine is an AlphaStation 200 (200 4/233 with 192 meg RAM) Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> I posted a questions to freebsd-questions earlier this evening (to which i Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> had no replies). I appologise if this is the wrong mailing to be using, but Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> I have been finding it really hard to find any information relevant to my Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> hardware. The original problem was about booting from the 4.5 alpha cd Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> (namely the keyboard stops working when the terminal type menu comes up). Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> Searches on google and reading the hardware.txt file were of no help. Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> Finally I found the archieves for this list and know now its because of my Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> graphics card not being supported. IMHO it would be *really* useful to Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> mention this in the hardware file. Although I have learnt a fair bit about Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> my system in the past 6 hours whilst trying to figure it out, other people Alex.W:>>ticso:>>> might just give up. Alex.W:>>ticso:>> Alex.W:>>ticso:>>It looks like sysinstall gets confused by the old disk content. Alex.W:>>ticso:>>If you zero out the first blocks you should be able to install. Alex.W:>>ticso:>> Alex.W:>>ticso:>>-- Alex.W:>>ticso:>>B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de Alex.W:>>ticso:>>ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de Alex.W:>>ticso:>> Alex.W:>>ticso:>> Alex.W:>>ticso:>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Alex.W:>>ticso:>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message