From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 25 20:46:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D4E37BB69 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115226>; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:46:34 +1000 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Silly question on FreeBSD V4.0 Dist In-reply-to: <200004260331.NAA21450@gw.one.com.au>; from raymond@one.com.au on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 01:32:29PM +1000 To: User Raymond Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Apr26.134634est.115226@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <200004260331.NAA21450@gw.one.com.au> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:46:32 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2000-Apr-26 13:32:29 +1000, User Raymond wrote: >some one please tell me if the alpha distribution is >included with the FreeBSD 4.0 2000 CD set? The standard CD-ROMs are for i386 only. >If this is correct, what's the best way to get an alpha >distribution? - I think you can buy an Alpha CD-ROM distribution - Download boot floppies and then do an FTP install from ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/4.0-RELEASE-alpha/ (or other suitable mirror - note that the directory structure is different on ftp.freebsd.org). - Download the CD-ROM image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/ - Do a sysinstall from the 3.2 CD-ROM (which had a bootable Alpha distribution on disk2), extract 4.0 sources and make world. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message