Is the Alpha distro available on CD?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:03:15PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote..


You have to burn them yourself.  FreeBSDmall in the dim past (3.4 I think)
offered FreeBSD/alpha on CD but the sales were too low to make it 
practical for them.

XP1000..... nice!

Wilko

> New to FreeBSD -- I just purchased the 5.3 bundle expecting to find the 
> distribution contained a CD install for multiple platforms like the 
> OpenBSD distribution CD, only to discover that it only supports i386!
> 
> However, there doesn't appear to be anything on the BSDstore website 
> offering any kind of distribution for the Alpha.
> 
> ... Does one exist? ... or do I have to burn by own.
> 
> I'm currently running OpenBSD on one Alpha and planned to install 
> FreeBSD on the other.
> 
> Neither XP1000 has a CD burner, but I do have a superdrive on my Mac OS 
> X 10.3.7 system.
> 
> Can anybody give me some pointers to avoid having to regress a few 
> years and cut floppies!!!
> 
> 
> 
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
> # Beige G3 - Rev A motherboard - 768 Meg
> # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) 800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg
> # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg]-Tru64 5.1a
> # XP1000  [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] Open BSD 3.6
> # XP1000  [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD
> magill at mcgillsociety.org
> magill at acm.org
> magill at mac.com
> whmagill at gmail.com
> 
> 
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