Ted Spradley writes:
|> 
|> > For the rest: You cannot imagine how happy I am with the quality of this 
|> > NetBSD-alpha install :-). Serious!
|> 
|> Yes!  I bought one of those AlphaStation 200s from OnSale.com and 
|> installed 1.3.2 on it.  I just went to ftp.netbsd.org, found the 1.3.2 
|> Alpha binaries, skimmed quickly through the installation instructions, 
|> and jumped in.  I haven't had any time to spend on it, I had to fire up 
|> the 'ftp mget *' one night and go to bed, then the next night 'for file 
|> in *.tgz...tar xpfz...' and go to bed.  It all Just Worked.

Well, the INSTALL file in the Alpha directory says:

    The sets are extracted with

        for file in base comp etc games man misc text; do
            tar --unlink -t -z -f /mnt/var/tmp/$file;
            done

    and the toolchain with

        tar --unlink -t -z -f /mnt/var/tmp/toolchain.tar.gz

Note the 'tar -t' (incorrect) instead of 'tar -x' (correct).  I guess
this is a newbie filter :-)...  Outside of that, my experiences mirror
yours.

|> <rant>
|>  And without spending hours trying to figure out the idiosyncrasies of 
|> some custom graphical interface, then more hours wading through lists of 
|> optional stuff, and not discovering until after all that that I 
|> misunderstood something near the beginning and it won't boot and I'm 
|> going to have to do it all again from the beginning because I didn't 
|> really understand what was going on as I did it, just like Windows.
|> </rant>

I guess I expect to have to redo things a few times till I get a bit
of experience.  That's what I'm going to be doing this weekend :-)

|> Thanks!  Thank you very much, everyone!
|> 
|> Ted Spradley <A HREF="mailto:tsprad@metronet.com">tsprad@metronet.com </A>
|>  +1-972-484-5356
|> My other computer is an Alpha.

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