From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 6 9: 4: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 09:04:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F40C37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24268; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB6H3sB02353; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:03:54 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Michael Chen Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more for help on digital server 5000 Message-ID: <20001206090354.D2205@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bd5rv@jsdxc.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:41:57AM +0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:41:57AM +0800, Michael Chen wrote: > After a few minutes trying to read kernel from CDROM, it told me that > "failed to send read to dka500". Does it mean that my CDROM is not supported > by Freebsd? No, we have problems booting from CDROMs and floppies on some machines. If you can dd' boot.flp onto a hard disk, you could boot from that and do a network install. Or if you have another FreeBSD Alpha, build the system disk on it and then transplant it to this machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message