From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 29 15:35:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8462E37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:35:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from atom.no-ip.org (203-79-74-170.adsl.paradise.net.nz [203.79.74.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E6043E42 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:35:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atom@atom.no-ip.org) Received: from atomlaptop ([192.168.0.10]) by atom.no-ip.org ([127.0.0.1]) with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v6.0.7.R) for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:34:38 +1300 Message-ID: <002301c27fa3$e9745fb0$0a00a8c0@atomnet> Reply-To: "Anthony O'Meara" From: "Anthony O'Meara" To: "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: References: <004701c27f85$e6dcc080$0a00a8c0@atomnet> <15807.4715.826890.763769@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Error installing FreeBSD on Alpha Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:35:48 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Authenticated-Sender: atom@atom.no-ip.org X-MDRemoteIP: 192.168.0.10 X-Return-Path: atom@atom.no-ip.org X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG 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 > The loader is apparently broken on your ancient hardware. What > version are you attempting to install? > > Drew > Thanks I downloaded the floppy images from FreeBSD FTP site, not sure what version! I'm going to try and download several different floppy images now, I wasn't sure what was causing the error, I thought it might have been hardware! Surely it must still work on an older Alpha, (I got FreeBSD working on a Pentium 100mhz, which is a lot older) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message