From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 29 16:51:28 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 55A7737B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9673443E42 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:51:26 -0800 (PST) (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 TAA25879; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:51:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g9U0ojF22358; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:50:45 -0500 (EST) (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: <15807.11493.826652.148233@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:50:45 -0500 (EST) To: "Anthony O'Meara" Cc: Subject: Re: Error installing FreeBSD on Alpha In-Reply-To: <002301c27fa3$e9745fb0$0a00a8c0@atomnet> References: <004701c27f85$e6dcc080$0a00a8c0@atomnet> <15807.4715.826890.763769@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <002301c27fa3$e9745fb0$0a00a8c0@atomnet> 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 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