Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:05:55 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting install disk Message-ID: <20000411200554.G410@yedi.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <200004111426.KAA05686@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:26:39AM -0400 References: <200004111426.KAA05686@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:26:39AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > 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. Yuck! The very least you need is SRM console firmware. > 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. Is it a Digital product? Dimensions? Partnumbers of the actual PCB? Digital style part# are like 54-xxxxx-xx for a populated PCB. > 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 First supply a bit more info on what it looks like. My first guess: Multia of some sorts? -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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