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Subject: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant
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The following seems to occur with VMS labeled disks as well.

> The following reply was made to PR alpha/17642; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with
> cant 
>  find init
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:38:26 +0200
> 
>  Received the following information <see quote>. For the time being 
>  I've commited a warning to both 4.x and -current in INSTALL.TXT for the
>  alpha. At least people have an opportunity to -know- what hurts them
>  (assuming they read docs ;-)
>  
>  Wilko
>  
>  
>  <quote>
>  I had seen those posts and as a matter of fact, last week I wiped all my
>  disks of BSD disk labels and was able to install.  I don't know where
>  this
>  information should be put, but I think it definitely needs to be
>  documented until it is fixed.  The problem seems to be the existence of
>  a
>  BSD disklabel on other disks, the disklabel can be from Linux, NetBSD,
>  OpenBSD, Digital/Tru64 Unix - doesn't matter -- the FreeBSD install will
>  give the "can't find init" error.  I installed NT and created NTFS
>  partitions on my disks and then was able to install FreeBSD/alpha.
>       
>  Dirk
>  </quote?>


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