[rescue] Alpha goodness and install fun!

Brian Hechinger rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jun 15 22:34:22 CDT 2001


>> Any idea how painful an FTP install of NetBSD Alpha is? Dave or James have
>> an ISO or CD?

just curious what sort of issues you have had.

> Painless.  I use a boot floppy on mine, and a local ftp box, and it
> is up in 15 minutes.  Over the net, it takes maybe an hour to install.

same here.  doing it on vax, alpha, sparc and mips, using both sysinst and the
old-fashioned manual way, using ftp every time.  never had a problem (if i did
have a problem, it was sysinst, and the manual way worked fine)

-brian



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