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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:11:05 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable?
Message-ID:  <20060110181105.GA23635@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20060110145845.GV25702@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20060107232833.GA53165@seekingfire.com> <20060107233120.GA556@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060107233606.GB53165@seekingfire.com> <20060108091346.GA2801@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060110145845.GV25702@seekingfire.com>

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:58:45AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote..
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:13:46AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:36:06PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote..
> > 
> > > What are other folks doing with their 2100As these days?
> > 
> > Scrap them?  I was offered one recently but politely declined :)
> 
> Ack, not what I was expecting :-)

Well, I have limited space at home.  3 Alphas now, and that is enough.

> OpenVMS isn't of interest to me, I have vaxen for that ;-)

I have a mVAXII, running Ultrix-11 ;)

> I've also looked at the $99 Tru64 "non-commerical" license. But it's
> only of mild interest -- tying this box into my FreeBSD 6/7 network
> would have made the hardware differences trasparent.
> 
> Does 4.x boot on the 2100A? Reading the archives I came a cross a few
> references to that.

It is a long time ago I tried it, our 2100A has gone away years ago.  So
you would need to find someone who has recently tried one.

But I am still puzzled the 2100A did not even attempt to boot.  Have you
verified the CDR on another Alpha?

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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