Bug 17410
| Summary: | Bad tag on Alpha boot floppies | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | matt <matt> |
| Component: | alpha | Assignee: | freebsd-alpha (Nobody) <alpha> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 4.0-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
matt
2000-03-16 19:10:00 UTC
Thanks, I'll investigate this immediately and fix it. > > >Number: 17410 > >Category: alpha > >Synopsis: Bad tag on Alpha boot floppies > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: freebsd-alpha > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 16 11:10:00 PST 2000 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Matthew Zahorik > >Release: 4.0-RELEASE > >Organization: > BiznessOnline.com > >Environment: > n/a > >Description: > The installation floppies for 4.0-RELEASE (kern.flp, mfsroot.flp) found in /p ub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.0-RELEASE/floppies have 4.0-CURRENT in the options. This naturally makes it a bit harder to install FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE since the base bin/doc/etc files aren't in that directory. > >How-To-Repeat: > > >Fix: > Workaround is to go into options from sysinstall and change the OS version ta g from 4.0-CURRENT to 4.0-RELEASE. The install works as expected from that poi nt onwards. > > >Release-Note: > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message State Changed From-To: open->closed Given that we are at 4.2-Release now keeping this PR open does not seem useful anymore. 4.2-R has good floppies IIRC from installing my Multia. |
