From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 2 7:20:16 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 41F1A1559A for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 07:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17320; Sun, 2 May 1999 15:20:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 15:20:17 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Kai Schmidt Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box In-Reply-To: <199905021221.OAA20080@karhu.hirvi.net> 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 Sun, 2 May 1999, Kai Schmidt wrote: > On 02.05.99, 14:57:17 Doug Rabson wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > >> Hmmh, I can't remember exactly but it was either from ftp.freebsd.org or > >> from ftp.de.freebsd.org and there from the stable branch. > >> > >> I read that the floppies on the CD are broken. > > That is true. I need to know which directory on the ftp site you > > downloaded them from. The ones from snapshots/alpha/4.0-19990413-CURRENT > > should work fairly well. > > I took, the 3.1 disks, ok, I will try the 4.0 and does it install also > version 3.1 or do I have to take the 4.0 branch? You should be able to install the 3.1 CD with 4.0 floppies. Go to the options screen and change the release to '3.1-RELEASE'. -- 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