Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:50:45 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Anthony O'Meara" <atom@atom.no-ip.org> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error installing FreeBSD on Alpha Message-ID: <15807.11493.826652.148233@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <002301c27fa3$e9745fb0$0a00a8c0@atomnet> References: <004701c27f85$e6dcc080$0a00a8c0@atomnet> <15807.4715.826890.763769@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <002301c27fa3$e9745fb0$0a00a8c0@atomnet>
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Anthony O'Meara writes: > > 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) Let's just say that nobody who's really in the loop tests on old, slow hardware very much, so if there is a problem, its much less likely to get caught early as we have much fewer users than the x86 port. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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