Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:43:34 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: John Weez <john@atomfx.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Alpha from Floppy?? Message-ID: <20030914174333.GR26878@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <3F64A18E.8070000@atomfx.com> References: <3F64A18E.8070000@atomfx.com>
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:12:46AM -0700, John Weez wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to boot my Alpha 164LX running FreeBSD 5.1 from floppy instead > of SCSI drive. Is this possible? 5.1 will be the last version which supports installing from floppy. Just booting is possible, but I won't recomend it, because floppies are way to small. > The SCSI drive in my Alpha is VERY LOUD and other scsi drives i have > tried are loud too. So, I was thinking of getting an IDE card and > hooking some IDE drives to it. I did not want to use the internal IDE > connection of the Alpha 164LX because I heard it is very slow. Some SCSI controllers and the onboard IDE controllers are at least bootable - additional ide controllers are not. You should try the onboard controller and if you think it's to slow for your usage then you should use a modern card and hook up a small ide/scsi drive or a compact flash just for booting. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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