From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 16:42:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9547116A403 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:42:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from diri.bris.ac.uk (diri.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59ED413C474 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:42:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by diri.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IBYpD-0004yS-Dw for doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:26:01 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.184.33]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IBYnZ-0001lD-S3 for doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:24:18 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6JGNmku046645 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:23:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from shterenl@localhost) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6JGNm9Q046644 for doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:23:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk: shterenl set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:23:48 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070719162348.GA46587@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Subject: addition to Common Installation Problems for Alpha/AXP X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:42:05 -0000 HI I just spent 2 days trying to install FBSD 6.2 on Alpha ds10l. I think I finally got it. In the process I had to solve some problems which to the best of my knowledge are not documented in any FBSD manual. I think my experience might be useful to others. Therefore I'd like to offer a short document on problems with disks previously used by other OS on alpha. This will go nicely under section 4.2 Common Installation Problems for Alpha/AXP Architecture Users (which is completely empty at the present) of FreeBSD/alpha 6.2-RELEASE Installation Instructions http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/installation-alpha.html I think this is a relatively 'common' problem. I've seen some discussion threads on various forums on this. However, there is nothing in the 'official' FBSD documentation. Moreover, the info is very fragmented and therefore took me ages to figure out. Let me know if anybody is interested in this. At present this is a plain text document. best regards anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423