Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:22:46 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@xs4all.nl> To: Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff Message-ID: <20030716072246.GA27642@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1058339743.3f14fb9f3f7ac@www.swissgeeks.com> References: <1058339743.3f14fb9f3f7ac@www.swissgeeks.com>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:15:43AM +0200, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Alphas do not use slices like x86. Slices are a PeeCee thing only. You should directly create a BSD disklabel/partitions. Wilko > Hi! > > I'm new to Alpha. I just received an EV56 (on PC164) with 256 Mb RAM. > Since I was not able to find any SCSI card which work on the installed SRM > (no update available) I decided to use an IDE HD and an IDE CD-ROM drive. > I'm having problems with IDE2 (maybe it's just something like I have to > enable it but I didn't go further into that) so I'm using IDE1. > On Master I have a 3.4 Gb HD and on Slave I have the CD-ROM drive. > When booting the system, I can see dqa0 and dqa1 through "show dev". > > So I downloaded FBSD 5.1-R, burnt it and booted it on my alpha (boot dqa1). > The installation process starts successfully and I can see it detects both > the HD and the CDROM (SCROLL-LOCK -> UP). > > So I choose to start the installation just like I did for many x86 machines > but when I come to create the labels in the "FreeBSD Disklabel Editor" it says: > > "You can only do this in a master partition (see top of screen)" > > Quite the same thing if I push "A". > Under x86 you have to fdisk to create a slice and then you can create the > labels. Someone told me Alphas don't use slices. So I believe the guy (who is > actually a kernel hacker hehe so Hi if you're on this list :D). > > The problem is that there's nothing at the top of the screen. I know I should > see 3.4Gb but it's not there! > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > Pierrick Brossin > IT Employee - Quark Media House Switzerland > Mail: pbrossin_AT_swissgeeks(dot)com > Web: http://www.swissgeeks.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ---end of quoted text---
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