From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 11:48:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9300837B66C; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9CIkai23513; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14822.97.297867.857108@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Cc: (Pawel Nogas) , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, Terry Lambert , jkh@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12-Oct-00 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > John Baldwin writes: > > > > Hmmm. If you booted from alpha floppies and tried to use the x86 CD > > I'm not sure it would catch the error. If you booted the CD then you > > This was common (at least a few people complained about it) around > the time of 4.0-release. > > People started getting x86 4.0 CDs in the mail. It wasn't terribly > clear they were x86 only. Some people erroniously thought it had > alpha bits on it too, but just didn't boot on alpha. They downloaded > floppies. Threw CD in when sysinstall asked for media. Sysinstall > installed x86 binaries. People complained that their system wouldn't > boot. > > Never underestimate the ability of people hang themselves when given > sufficient rope :-( All the more reason to change the x86 CD's to say 'FreeBSD/x86'. *prod* *prod* > Drew -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message