From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 11 5:47:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A86E37B403; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01449; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:47:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f8BCl1493624; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:47:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15262.1988.758945.134617@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:47:00 -0400 (EDT) To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture In-Reply-To: <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com> References: <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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