From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 6 16:19:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3F837B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBC443E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:19:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15393; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:19:36 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gA70J6537983; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:19:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15817.45434.113476.499828@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:19:06 -0500 (EST) To: Rob B Cc: Fred Clift , Subject: Re: 5.0 alpha install tests In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021107111358.01d798d0@pop.ozemail.com.au> References: <20021106162512.C17080-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20021107111358.01d798d0@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rob B writes: > At 16:28 6/11/2002 -0700, Fred Clift sent this up the stick: > > >Week or two ago there was a request to try out -current on alphas to see > >if the install would work. > > > >I now have removeable disk-carriers in my alpha and would be in a position > >to try this -- can anyone outline the steps I'd take? I need to try a > >remote-ftp install? I download iso images and burn them? > > I've just finished installing 5.0DP-1 on a PC64 (Cabriolet) I did an FTP > install from the DP-1 CD across the local network. The APECS chipset in my > Alpha is not recognised by FreeBSD. So, you did an install but your chipset is not recognised? Thats, well, impossible. Can you supply an error message, and a show conf from the SRM promp? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message