Re: Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER

From: Schroeder, AJ (aj1_at_qg.com)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:56:27 -0500

"GM" <logquality@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:tRL_e.91$z26.71@edtnps84...
> From GM
>
> I dl'd a copy of gentoo linux and made a floppy of some milo stuff. It
> actually flashed and squeaked and sputtered and after 15 minutes I got
> a...
> #
>
> some kinda command line ***.
>
> No desktop, no nothin.
>
> I'd luv to install freeBSD but after downloading it ....the genius who
> says
> *copy these image files to a floppy
>
> well ........HOW... they are .flp images
>
> The problem with Linux is.... people who build it....don't know just how
> DUMB us wintel morons are.
>
> No wonder M$ is winning........you Gotta have a freakin degree just to
> install these so called FREE OS's.
>
> My new Vocabulary of the week:
>
> MILO.......a Canine mascot affiliated with FreeBSD or NetBSD
>
> Floppy Image.....A Photo of a Floppy disk
>
> Boot DKA400 -flags0.........secret code to access my cd-rom
>
> Is there any........any..........OS that I can download and
> burn.........An
> ISO.........and put it in the CD-rom in the Alpha server........and
> .....and........it works.........
>
> Long Live the Swiss....
>
> Cheers
>
>

GM,

If you would like to try FreeBSD, there is extensive documentation on
installation for alpha, that, and FreeBSD is *extremely* well-documented as
far as free OSes go.

I run FreeBSD and VMS on alpha hardware, I am learning VMS (thanks to
comp.os.vms and fellow co-workers) but I am very comfortable with FreeBSD on
alpha hardware.

If you would like to install FreeBSD on alpha hardware, you just need to
download the ISO for disk1 from one of the ftp mirrors for freebsd.org. (I
personally use ftp5.freebsd.org.) After you burn the ISO, from the SRM all
you need to do is boot the CD and from there you use a ncurses based
installer. Very simple.

I reccommend using 5.4-RELEASE, here are the installation notes:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/installation-alpha.html

Cheers,

AJ Schroeder

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