On Sunday 23 June 2002 00:03, Oleg Kobets wrote: > OK. > > First thanks for the replies. I want to clarify that I am not the legal > owner > (ie. never BOUGHT it) of this Alpha. I got it from a friend that got it > from ..? > > Therefore I am not aligible to Compaq support. (Already spoke with them) > > And I really wanna replace my server with this baby. > 266Mhz Alpha = ~700Mhz PC > > The only trouble is, I have no idea how to install the OS. I mean, ARC (the > alpha bios) gives me the option to install NT and that's it. I don't know > how to boot from cdrom, therefore I can't install Linux/Unix on it. > > Anyone ideas ?
I haven't played with such a machine for quite a long time (back from the ISDN Net days where we had an Alpha to convert audio/video to MS format).. The machine that you got can install only NT 4 (or 3.51 - don't remember exactly which) and not OSF/1.. You'll need to google a bit and find some hack to install Linux on it. Maybe SuSE 7.x can work on it. There's also a new Red Hat 7.2 for Alpha which came out this week - so you can try those ISO's too... Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
