The install floppies are located at the following address:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/1.4.2_ALPHA/alpha/installation/floppy

Do you have the same cia0 extended capabilities?  It should stall shortly
after detecting cia0.  Thanks for the help.

Jeff

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:10:31 +0100
> From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
> To: Jeff Roberson <nomad@nop.aliensystems.com>
> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Pyxis chip on a 500a.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:26:02AM -0800, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> 
> > I agree.  There are a number of factors here which suggest that this might
> > not be the pyxis bug described here.  I installed the freebsd snapshot
> > from a few days ago, and I will paste the dmesg output below.  Assuming we
> 
> Looks very similar to the FreeBSD-current on my Miata. The only difference
> is that I'm SCSI-only. 
> 
> > probe devices in the same order, it looks like it hangs before attatching
> > the pci host bus adapter on cia. If anyone has any suggestions I'd still
> > prefer to run NetBSD on this machine.
> 
> Well, I'm a FreeBie ;-) myself but I'll happily try the NetBSD-snap you
> are having troubles with on my Miata. Please give me the exact pointer
> to what you used, don't want to do apples/oranges comparisons.
> 
> W/
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> Wilko Bulte 		Arnhem, The Netherlands	  - The FreeBSD Project 
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