From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 13: 1:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B74B37B66D for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13joXj-0003AX-00; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:01:31 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9C87Kj18640; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:07:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:07:20 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Pawel Nogas , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <20001012100720.A18613@freebie.demon.nl> References: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin writes: .. > > - You accidentally managed to install with i386 and not alpha > > distribution sets --- there are separate CDs for x86 and alpha > > How is this possible? Same question: is the install process broken, > in that it actually permits this to happen, ever? It is. It happened to me once, long time ago. I think the installer only checks which rev CD is in the drive, not which architecture it belongs to. W/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message