Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:34:34 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: User Raymond <raymond@one.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly question on FreeBSD V4.0 Dist Message-ID: <20000426193433.I1021@yedi.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <00Apr26.134634est.115226@border.alcanet.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 01:46:32PM %2B1000 References: <200004260331.NAA21450@gw.one.com.au> <00Apr26.134634est.115226@border.alcanet.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 01:46:32PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2000-Apr-26 13:32:29 +1000, User Raymond <raymond@one.com.au> wrote: > >some one please tell me if the alpha distribution is > >included with the FreeBSD 4.0 <March> 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. Are you sure 3.2 was bootable on Alpha? I'm pretty sure O'brien added support for bootable CDs on 4.0R. Booting the 4.0R cd works like a charm. -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000426193433.I1021>