From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 3 9:19:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.toplink.net (mail.toplink.net [195.2.171.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3C015043 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:19:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ks@hirvi.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.toplink.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id SAA10677 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 3 May 1999 18:19:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hirvi.net (susi.hirvi.net [195.2.174.98]) by karhu.hirvi.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA02115 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 16:00:15 +0200 Message-Id: <199905031400.QAA02115@karhu.hirvi.net> Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 17:43:00 +0200 From: Kai Schmidt Reply-To: Kai Schmidt To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box X-Mailer: Kai Schmidt's registered AK-Mail 3.0b sppb1 [ger] 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 On 03.05.99, 20:00:31 John Birrell wrote: > 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. Compared to a Red Hat Linux installation with milo and ramdisk etc. this install was fairly easy ;) >> 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. One thing about alpha's: Never give up, always trying ;) -- Bye! - Kai Schmidt - "That's why we are on this ship to begin with! It becomes our problem when the machines can't handle it!" Capt. Dallas, USCSS Nostromo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message