diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
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--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
In general, these installation instructions are written
for &i386; (PC compatible
) architecture
computers. Where applicable, instructions specific to other
- platforms (for example, Alpha) will be listed. Although this
+ platforms will be listed. Although this
guide is kept as up to date as possible, you may find minor
differences between the installer and what is shown here. It is
suggested that you use this chapter as a general guide rather
@@ -123,32 +123,14 @@
Alpha
- To install &os;/&arch.alpha;, you will need a supported
- platform (see )
- and a dedicated disk for &os;. It is not possible to share
- a disk with another operating system at this time. This
- disk will need to be attached to a SCSI controller which is
- supported by the SRM firmware or an IDE disk assuming the
- SRM in your machine supports booting from IDE disks.
-
- ARC
- Alpha BIOS
- SRM
-
- You will need the SRM console firmware for your
- platform. In some cases, it is possible to switch between
- AlphaBIOS (or ARC) firmware and SRM. In others it will be
- necessary to download new firmware from the vendor's Web
- site.
-
-
Support for the Alpha was removed beginning with
&os; 7.0. The
&os; 6.X series of
releases is the last containing support for this
- architecture.
-
-
+ architecture. Please check the Release
+ Information page of the &os; web site for more
+ information.
@@ -464,58 +446,6 @@
-
-
- Disk Layouts for the Alpha
-
- Alpha
-
- You will need a dedicated disk for FreeBSD on the
- Alpha. It is not possible to share a disk with another
- operating system at this time. Depending on the specific
- Alpha machine you have, this disk can either be a SCSI disk
- or an IDE disk, as long as your machine is capable of
- booting from it.
-
- Following the conventions of the Digital / Compaq
- manuals all SRM input is shown in uppercase. SRM is case
- insensitive.
-
- To find the names and types of disks in your machine, use
- the SHOW DEVICE command from the SRM
- console prompt:
-
- >>>SHOW DEVICE
-dka0.0.0.4.0 DKA0 TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-57 3476
-dkc0.0.0.1009.0 DKC0 RZ1BB-BS 0658
-dkc100.1.0.1009.0 DKC100 SEAGATE ST34501W 0015
-dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
-ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-75-6D-01
-pkc0.7.0.1009.0 PKC0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.27
-pqa0.0.0.4.0 PQA0 PCI EIDE
-pqb0.0.1.4.0 PQB0 PCI EIDE
-
- This example is from a Digital Personal Workstation
- 433au and shows three disks attached to the machine. The
- first is a CDROM drive called DKA0 and
- the other two are disks and are called
- DKC0 and
- DKC100 respectively.
-
- Disks with names of the form DKx
- are SCSI disks. For example DKA100
- refers to a SCSI disk with SCSI target ID 1 on the first SCSI bus (A),
- whereas DKC300 refers to a SCSI disk
- with SCSI ID 3 on the third SCSI bus (C). Devicename
- PKx refers to the SCSI host bus adapter. As
- seen in the SHOW DEVICE output SCSI
- CDROM drives are treated as any other SCSI hard disk drive.
-
- IDE disks have names similar to DQx,
- while PQx is the associated IDE
- controller.
-
-
@@ -1047,65 +977,6 @@ Insert disk labelled "Kernel floppy 1" and press any key...
-
-
- Booting for the Alpha
-
- Alpha
-
-
-
- Start with your computer turned off.
-
-
-
- Turn on the computer and wait for a boot monitor
- prompt.
-
-
-
- If you needed to prepare boot floppies, as described in
- then one of them will be the
- first boot disc, probably the one containing
- boot.flp. Put this disc in your floppy
- drive and type the following command to boot the disk
- (substituting the name of your floppy drive if
- necessary):
-
- >>>BOOT DVA0 -FLAGS '' -FILE ''
-
- If you are booting from CDROM, insert the CDROM into
- the drive and type the following command to start the
- installation (substituting the name of the appropriate
- CDROM drive if necessary):
-
- >>>BOOT DKA0 -FLAGS '' -FILE ''
-
-
-
- FreeBSD will start to boot. If you are booting from a
- floppy disc, at some point you will see the message:
-
- Insert disk labelled "Kernel floppy 1" and press any key...
-
- Follow these instructions by removing the
- boot.flp disc, insert the
- kern1.flp disc, and press
- Enter.
-
-
-
- Whether you booted from floppy or CDROM, the
- boot process will then get to this point:
-
- Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
-Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... _
-
- Either wait ten seconds, or press Enter. This
- will then launch the kernel configuration menu.
-
-
-