From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 9 15:16:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F40F15C9D for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 15:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA15181; Sun, 9 May 1999 18:16:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA19244; Sun, 9 May 1999 18:16:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 18:16:31 -0400 (EDT) To: Joao Pedras Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing on alpha In-Reply-To: References: <14134.16.359926.762596@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14134.1921.501643.510@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joao Pedras writes: > > you know for sure that NetBSD will run on this hardware ? It did last summer. > well, I've been playing around with bootp from some time now > > what would you suggest ? Do whatever makes you feel most comfortable, you're better able to weigh the pros & cons than I am. Booting it diskless *should* work; but I don't think anybody has run FreeBSD on a Turbochannel alpha in quite some time. There are lots of people running NetBSD on TC alphas. If you're willing to spend the time to get a diskless setup working & you're most comfortable with FreeBSD, then use FreeBSD. If you want a system which "just works", use NetBSD. They have better hardware support for turbo channel alphas. Ideally you (or somebody else with access to the hardware & time) would take the time to CAM'ify the esp driver & port the NetBSD serial port driver. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message