Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:05:04 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the Alpha distro available on CD? Message-ID: <20041224090504.GA58736@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <F8F63770-554F-11D9-AF25-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> References: <200412221730.iBMHUJC6097807@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041222184436.GA50553@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200412230003.02588.hadara@bsd.ee> <20041222221346.GA51611@freebie.xs4all.nl> <F8F63770-554F-11D9-AF25-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:03:15PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote.. You have to burn them yourself. FreeBSDmall in the dim past (3.4 I think) offered FreeBSD/alpha on CD but the sales were too low to make it practical for them. XP1000..... nice! Wilko > New to FreeBSD -- I just purchased the 5.3 bundle expecting to find the > distribution contained a CD install for multiple platforms like the > OpenBSD distribution CD, only to discover that it only supports i386! > > However, there doesn't appear to be anything on the BSDstore website > offering any kind of distribution for the Alpha. > > ... Does one exist? ... or do I have to burn by own. > > I'm currently running OpenBSD on one Alpha and planned to install > FreeBSD on the other. > > Neither XP1000 has a CD burner, but I do have a superdrive on my Mac OS > X 10.3.7 system. > > Can anybody give me some pointers to avoid having to regress a few > years and cut floppies!!! > > > > T.T.F.N. > William H. Magill > # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg > # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg > # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]-Tru64 5.1a > # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] Open BSD 3.6 > # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD > magill@mcgillsociety.org > magill@acm.org > magill@mac.com > whmagill@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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