Can't boot 5.1 install media

[Allen Ziegenfus]

I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my Alpha to no avail. I have a
PC164LX with SRM v5.8. I downloaded 5.1-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso as
a starting point. I downloaded this over several nights (using wget
-c) and the md5 checksum matched up. (I hope the new smaller iso image 
is available soon.) 

Then I tried booting the CD. I have 4 IDE drives in the Alpha, 3 hard
drives and a CD burner. At first I tried booting off the CD drive on
the second IDE channel but it would display an error like, "cannot
find device" -- maybe there is some limitation that you can only boot
off of dqa0 or dqa1? So I moved the CD drive to dqa0 and then I get
some promising messages but after the "jumping to bootstrap" message
it just hangs. I also can't seem to boot my RH 7.1 media, so who knows
what that problem is.

Then I tried making floppies. No matter how I try to copy the floppy
image (from RH Linux), I get a "invalid boot block" when trying boot
dva0 from SRM. I can still boot off some older linux floppies. 

dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 

I'm sure (or I hope) there is something very obvious I'm missing. Any
ideas? I guess the next step is to try to download the floppy images
separately. 

Allen
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