From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 23 13: 0:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EBA1168A for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA61598; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:59:42 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:59:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Don Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Don wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to install FreeBSD alpha on an alpha I have but the > installation keeps failing late in the game with the following error: > Could not install /kernel > > If i jump to the vty it shows errors during the last 4 items installed > which state: > > cp: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > chmod : 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > xargs : 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > tar : 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > > In any case /kernel doesnt seem to want to go in. > > The machine is one of the infamous alpha station 200 4/233's from onsale > with a different graphics card, 96 megs of ram and a 3 gig scsi hard disk. > > Any help would be appreciated. Off the top of my head, I would suggest that you have extracted an i386 binary set. I'm planning to do a few test installs tomorrow so we will see. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message