Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:47:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture Message-ID: <15262.1988.758945.134617@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com> References: <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com>
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Bruce A. Mah writes: > Hi folks-- > > Some time ago, I observed that the Handbook installation chapter was > oriented very strongly towards the i386 architecture. In an effort to > remedy this situation, what I've done is to bring the Alpha-specific > parts of the RELNOTESng install document into a form usable in the > Handbook. By nik's (very reasonable) request, I've held off on > committing this, but instead am posting a diff at the end of this > message. Wow. You've done an excellent job! My feedback is: - mention that IDE disks are called 'dqX' (rather than dkX) on most alpha platforms. The miata is an exception. - instruct them to pass null file and flags args to the installation boot. Eg: boot -fl '' -fi '' DEVICE (The loader pays attention to them & may try to load a file that doesn't exist if they're not blanked after installing, say, linux.) - instruct them to blank the boot_file and boot_osflags variables after install, in addition to setting bootdef_dev Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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