From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 29 0:14:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from frond.minions.com (adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.192.211.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9958B15103; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bifrost@minions.com) Received: from localhost.minions.com (localhost.minions.com [127.0.0.1]) by frond.minions.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06742; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bifrost@minions.com) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:14:30 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Mike Smith Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATE: boot install disk on multia In-Reply-To: <199911290803.AAA02716@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Your floppy drive is probably screwed. You may want to try updating to > the latest SRM, which does a little better with the floppy drive, as well > as trying a couple of new floppies (if you haven't already). Yeah, the floppies in the multias are really bad :/ Whats the easiest way to get new firmware into these boxes? Mine's got the dual ARC/SRM and so far I have only seen a floppy upgrade option, but I don't have a place to get that from. > Aside from that, you're really down to a network install, which is not > particularly easy. Definately not easy, I've been reading the mailing lists on netbooting some boxes and its definately a bit hairy. I would suggest the zip drive method, or even just dd'ing the image onto a spare SCSI HD that you're not installing to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message