Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:03:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902240901510.60339-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902231621380.487-100000@calis.blacksun.org>
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Don wrote: > > 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. > this was based on the boot floppies in: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/snapshots/alpha/4.0-19990206-SNAP > > This floppy booted and so did the one in 4.0-19990204-SNAP. I sent these > machines to the 4.0 Snap server and they went out and got all of the > information but died when trying to install the kernel at the end. > > Is there a problem with the floppy or with the server or am i doing > something wrong? I think that sysinstall must be using the wrong pathname on the snap server. I'll have a look at the code but you should be able to work around it my specifying an explicit pathname to an alpha snapshot. -- 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
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