From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 3 2:52:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBEC14A2E for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 02:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA16390; Mon, 3 May 1999 20:00:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199905031000.UAA16390@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box In-Reply-To: <199905030731.JAA30124@karhu.hirvi.net> from Kai Schmidt at "May 3, 1999 11:14:26 am" To: ks@hirvi.net Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 20:00:31 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kai Schmidt wrote: > On 03.05.99, 18:45:49 John Birrell wrote: > > Hi John, > > >> Its the second CD I think. > > Alpha really should have it's own set of CDs. Stuffing a few alpha > > bits in what are mostly i386 CDs continues to trip people up. > > This might be a quite good idea, but I am quite sure that this will happen, > when the Alpha version grows further. I suspect that it might grow further/faster if some of the rough edges were removed. One thing that has always differentiated FreeBSD is a neat install. Alpha needs work to live up to that. > > But to be honest, despite of taking the wrong floppies, I didn't face any > problems, usually I tend to install ports from the ftp ports server. Glad to hear you were successful in the end. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message