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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:26:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Booting install disk
Message-ID:  <200004111426.KAA05686@blackhelicopters.org>

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Hello,

I just found myself the proud owner of an utterly obsolete and
completely undocumented Alpha system.  Being a masochist, I decided to
install FreeBSD.

There's a friendly little menu system when the box boots, labeling it
a "ARC Multiboot Alpha AXP Version 3.5-7", and a boot menu.

You can tell it to boot off the floppy drive, but I keep getting a
"file system not recognized" error.

I'd be delighted to send along hardware details, but there's no model
number on the box.  It's brown, flat, rather like a miniature desktop
PC case.  Four audio ports on the front.  The motherboard slides out
the back.

Does anybody have any idea what this machine is, and where I could get
more information on it?  I'd love to do a FreeBSD/Alpha article, but I
don't even know where to begin.  The Handbook & FAQ appear silent on
the matter.

Thanks,
==ml


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