From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 21 17: 3:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42BF37C29E for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01937; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007220012.RAA01937@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Dirk Kleinhesselink Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:57:08 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:12:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At least for myself and several others who had this problem: > > you will never get to the install setup up if your system already has a > BSD (Tru64/NetBSD/Linux (using BSD disk label) and from Matt's example, a > FreeBSD disk with the /sbin/init clobbered) or OpenVMS system disk. Hang on; this doesn't make sense. Does Matt's comment imply that if you boot an Alpha setup instance over a FreeBSD system with an *intact* /sbin/init, things work? I've tested _that_, and it certainly works fine here. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message