Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:24:46 +0100 (CET) From: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo@righi.ml.org> To: Administrator <admin@gippy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812110918220.25524-100000@righi.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <1298839775-8112753@gippy.net>
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As far as I know alfa platform is supported, I dunno if also turbo channel is supported or only PCI machines. Anyway as far as a I knoe in the official 3.0 RELEASE for alpha the boot disk have to be taken from the NetBSD distribution, then new SNAPSHOT have being released every 3 weeks, the latest SNAPSHOT for alpha is dated 6 December, and this SNAPSHOT support the boot disk mechanism, actually 2 disks. One boot disk and one compressed image of the root filesystem, they are dumped in 2 different disks otherwise they would not fit in only 1 disk. Many many improovement are being brought every week I think... myself anyway I have an alpha Multia 166MHz with Digital UNix and I WAnted to try FreeBSD but I decided to wait for a more stable and well supported release. Anyway more will be the people trying the new alpha SNAPSHOTS and more the process of correcting bugs and improoving the snapshots will be efficient... so who knows... maybe I will try the new snapshot soon :) Rick On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Administrator wrote: > >I have a Digital Alpha machine that I would like to load FreeBSD on. I read > >the readme.txt file for version 3.0 and it refers that it will be compatible > >with Alpha machines, but is it right now? Any help would be appreciated. > > > >Thanks a lot. > > I know, I have an AlphaStation 200 233mhz system, I posted a few days ago > asking if the current release was workable/bootable on this system, but > have not heard anything either. The Web site says it supports it, and I > think Walnut Creek CD-Rom's site has 1 line in the description saying > v3.0 now has Alpha support, but very very little info on exactly how > much/what level of support. Any help for both of us I guess would be > most welcomed. > > > -Nevin Lyne - admin@gippy.net > -G.I.S., Inc. - http://www.gippy.net/ > -There are two rules for ultimate success in life. > -1. Never tell everything you know. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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