From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 16 12: 0:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB4F37C406 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA68575; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:00:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003162000.MAA68575@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: alpha/17410: Bad tag on Alpha boot floppies Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR alpha/17410; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" To: matt@thebiz.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/17410: Bad tag on Alpha boot floppies Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:51:57 -0800 Thanks, I'll investigate this immediately and fix it. > > >Number: 17410 > >Category: alpha > >Synopsis: Bad tag on Alpha boot floppies > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: freebsd-alpha > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 16 11:10:00 PST 2000 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Matthew Zahorik > >Release: 4.0-RELEASE > >Organization: > BiznessOnline.com > >Environment: > n/a > >Description: > The installation floppies for 4.0-RELEASE (kern.flp, mfsroot.flp) found in /p ub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.0-RELEASE/floppies have 4.0-CURRENT in the options. This naturally makes it a bit harder to install FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE since the base bin/doc/etc files aren't in that directory. > >How-To-Repeat: > > >Fix: > Workaround is to go into options from sysinstall and change the OS version ta g from 4.0-CURRENT to 4.0-RELEASE. The install works as expected from that poi nt onwards. > > >Release-Note: > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message