Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:23:48 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: addition to Common Installation Problems for Alpha/AXP Message-ID: <20070719162348.GA46587@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
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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
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