Re: Error installing FreeBSD on Alpha

Anthony O'Meara writes:
 > > The loader is apparently broken on your ancient hardware.  What
 > > version are you attempting to install?
 > >
 > > Drew
 > >
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > I downloaded the floppy images from FreeBSD FTP site, not sure what version!
 > 
 > I'm going to try and download several different floppy images now, I wasn't
 > sure what was causing the error, I thought it might have been hardware!
 > 
 > Surely it must still work on an older Alpha, (I got FreeBSD working on a
 > Pentium 100mhz, which is a lot older)


Let's just say that nobody who's really in the loop tests on old, slow
hardware very much, so if there is a problem, its much less likely
to get caught early as we have much fewer users than the x86 port.

Drew

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