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Mike Haertel, On 07-Nov-98 you wrote:

...

>  Actually, in the credit-where-it's-due dept, the release I
>  downloaded yesterday afternoon came from ftp.freebsd.org:
>  /pub/FreeBSD/alpha/3.0-19981105-SNAP.
>  
>  And it was built by Jordan, witness the kernel startup banner:
>  
> >FreeBSD 3.0-19981105-SNAP #1: Fri Nov  6 16:51:51 GMT 1998
> >    jkh@beast.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS

Thanx Jordan. :-)

>  A couple of observations:
>  
>  - The bit about not making the root disk bootable still isn't fixed yet.
>    I had to boot off the floppy and fix it manually.
>  
>  - To my surprise, the sysinstall partitioning phase did not find the
>    old NetBSD partitions on the disk.  The reason I find this surprising
>    is that when I got the mfsroot floppy wrong, the FreeBSD kernel
>    happily found and booted using the NetBSD partitions.  So apparently
>    sysinstall and the kernel don't quite look in the same places for
>    the disk label.

I also noticed that fdisk partitioning is just for decoration; Gets totally
ignored.  I also could not see the second disk in the disklabel screen,
last I checked.

>  - The sysinstall screen still gets the colors wrong.

I sort of like them this way.  Blue for IBM/M$, and Red for Digital.

>  Other than these observations, it works great and felt *exactly* like
>  an x86 install.

Yup.  Looks real good.

Simon


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