Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 18:16:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Joao Pedras <jpedras@mail.telepac.pt> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing on alpha Message-ID: <14134.1921.501643.510@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990509230727.jpedras@mail.telepac.pt> References: <14134.16.359926.762596@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <XFMail.990509230727.jpedras@mail.telepac.pt>
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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
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