Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:26:25 -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: <14133.64709.38809.554590@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990509222120.jpedras@mail.telepac.pt> References: <XFMail.990509222120.jpedras@mail.telepac.pt>
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I did the original work to get this machine supported & it worked fine before the switch to CAM SCSI. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to such a machine, and even if I did, I don't currently have the time or the knowledge required to CAM'ify the esp driver that all 3000 series alphas need.. Any volunteers out there? Until the esp driver is CAM'ified, this machine is usable only in a diskless configuration. Sorry, 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 Joao Pedras writes: > Hello all! > > I have been trying to install freebsd on a (old!) alpha machine. It is a > Digital 3000 Model 300LX. It has a tape device, 2 hard disks (500Mb and 2Gb), a > cd-rom and nic. > It has been difficult because the machine has no floppy drive and the cd player > seems to have a hard time reading the cd's I have made with boot.flp for alpha. > CD's made with the same recording procedure work on the x86 platform. > The machine has DEC OSF/1 installed and this would be an excelent time to > change it to FreeBSD. This is primarily a pop server and it would be nice to > start introducing FreeBSD in all machines we have in this platform. > We don't have any other machine with the kind of tapes this one is using, so > using the tape doesn't seem possible. > The machine has SRM console firmware installed. It is not the last version, but > it is 1 year old. We did this update with cd-rom supplied by Digital. > > Do you guys have an idea of how this installation could be done ? Has anyone > installed FreeBSD on this kind of machine with success ? > Has anyone tried some kind of network installation using SRM console features ? > > I also tried an OpenBSD 2.4 cd-rom I have. Kernel stops with some kind error > about scc0 (isn't this the console ?) > > If anyone has any sugestion, please say something. > > Thanks! > > Joao Pedras > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sent on 09-May-99 at 18:39:23 > Powered by FreeBSD -> http://www.freebsd.org <- "The Power to Serve" > PGP key available upon request or may be cut at > http://members.tripod.com/fbsd/pgpkey.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > "The sooner all the animals are dead, the sooner we'll find their > money." > -- Ed Bluestone, "The National Lampoon" > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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