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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:52:34 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        aaron <aaron@lo-res.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: possible donation
Message-ID:  <20020317185233.GD3992@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <1016382030.405.21.camel@chillig.lo-res.org>
References:  <1016382030.405.21.camel@chillig.lo-res.org>

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:20:30PM +0100, aaron wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi -alpha team,
> 
> I received a AlphaPC164 (chipset 21172 (EB64+ ?), 265MB RAM, 500MHz) as
> a donation and for experimental purposes.
> 
> I tried to install fbsd 4.5 (alpha iso image) but received a kernel
> segfault after it had read the kernel off the CD.

Would be good to know more about this.
I'm running a PC164 with 4.5-RC (16th Jan 2002).
Maybe a card you plugged in triggers this.

> Well, anyway. One or the oher versions will hopefully install and I hope
> to be running fbsd on that machine soon. (any help of course welcome).
> 
> My point: since I will not be doing a lot on it, I could "donate" it via
> ssh access for testing purposes - if this is an option for developers on
> this list.
> 
> It would be connected to a 2mbit link.
> Anybody interested? Would anyone use it for development and testing?

IMHO testing RELEASE images and/or tracking -stable/-current
regulary and report problems would help.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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