Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:34:53 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Alpha <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing alpha port from 3.1 CDROM....... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904261030270.33493-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <000001be8fb7$936353e0$204c93cd@william>
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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, William Woods wrote: > OK, I just bought the 3.1 CD with the Alpha distro on it. I know the floppy > images are broken, I am useing the 4.0 snap images on the web. My question > is this, I know how to change the distro name in options from 4.0snap to > 3.1, but the alpha stuff is on the 2nd cd in /releases/alpha/3 , hoow do I > point /stand/sysinstall to install from that directory. You need to go to the options screen and set the 'Release Name' to '3.1-RELEASE'. The install program should pick up the files from the right place automatically (I just tried this with my 3.1-RELEASE CD set and it worked with a locally built snapshot dated 19990221). -- 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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