From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 28 7: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED2237B403 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (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 KAA27738; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:09:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f7SE8c744525; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:08:38 -0400 (EDT) (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: <15243.42469.922745.433339@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:08:37 -0400 (EDT) To: Diego Montalvo Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Successful boot: 4.3 in 5305 but.... In-Reply-To: <3B8B2DB1.18E3FDA0@earthoid.com> References: <3B8B2DB1.18E3FDA0@earthoid.com> 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 Diego Montalvo writes: > Howdy, > > I have successfully booted FreeBSD 4.3-20010822-STABLE on a Digital > 5305, now I am not sure how to install FreeBSD. It simply just loops > and keeps on looping the Boot Disk on "dva500" cdrom. > > >From my i386 experience, FreeBSD prompts, an installation menu, with > Alpha, I have not been prompted any sort of installation menu. > > Do I need disk2.iso ? Or am I missing something? Can you please give us an exact transcript of what you're seeing? Its nearly impossible to tell what's going on from your description. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message