Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:09:56 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Jason T. Luttgens" <jason.luttgens@nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Alpha Installation Question Message-ID: <200403051509.56839.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <000001c402b1$65815c20$6737a8c0@ORIONLAPTOP> References: <000001c402b1$65815c20$6737a8c0@ORIONLAPTOP>
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On Friday 05 March 2004 07:57 am, Jason T. Luttgens wrote: > I see in the FreeBSD handbook and in the INSTALL.TXT of the ISO image of > disk one that it mentions Alpha boot floppies are in the floppies/ > directory on the CD or in the releases/floppies directory on the FTP > server. It seems that for version > 5.1, there are no floppies directories. > I was wondering if something has changed with the installation procedure > regarding boot floppies on Alpha with recent 5.x series FreeBSD versions? Currently 5.x doesn't provide boot floppies for Alpha. They will be re-added if the tools in current are fixed to actually generate bootable floppies (specifically, bsdlabel(8) seems to be broken). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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