Subject: Re: time for INSTALL.ACPI ?
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: port-amd64
Date: 11/13/2006 17:15:28
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Blair Sadewitz wrote:

> Installation of the amd64 port is slightly more difficult than usual
> because there is no GENERIC_ACPI kernel listed in sysinst.

Even more difficult for me, since the INSTALL kernel itself would not
run long enough to untar any of the distribution sets.  Most times, it
wouldn't even finish newfs'ing the disk.

I ended up booting an i386 ACPI kernel on it, and manually installing
everything.



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