OK ppl.
After 12 hours of non-stop work I finally did it. I managed to install
Debian "woody" on Alpha XL 266. Yuppy :_)
The procedure (for archives) is this:
1. Since I have no SRM or AlphaBIOS (only ARC) I had to use MILO.
MILO is no longer in development so "officially"
tion an 266 Mhz more than beats a 1 GHz Intel.
On some benchmarks I've seen, only an Irix MIPS could beat a comparable Alpha
on intensive floating point calculation application (Ram and cache size almost the
same).
Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002, Shaul Karl wrote about &q
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002, Shaul Karl wrote about "Re: Alpha XL 266":
> will try to convert you to Tru64. For example, Tru64 is able to run
> their native compiler for which they will show you many benchmarks that
> prove how much it is superior comparing to gcc.
I wonder wh
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> >
> > Also note, that Alpha, however well-engineered, is dying.
> > VMS will be ported (is being ported?) to Itanium, and Tru64 Unix
> > will probably be replaced with Linux or unified with HP/UX.
>
> Compaq P.R. promised some sort of compatibili
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
>
> Also note, that Alpha, however well-engineered, is dying.
> VMS will be ported (is being ported?) to Itanium, and Tru64 Unix
> will probably be replaced with Linux or unified with HP/UX.
Compaq P.R. promised some sort of compatibility for executa
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> The machine that you got can install only NT 4 (or 3.51 - don't remember
> exactly which) and not OSF/1..
I had this kind of Alpha exactly with OSF1 (or DEC UNIX, or Tru64, or
whatever you call it) as my personal workstation. I have had many an Alpha
u
Hi!
Well, thanks for all your replies. I have found out
that my favorite linux distro Debian supports Alpha XL and I am now d/l netinst.
I have also managed to find updated firmware that supposed to resolve some
issues with Linux install.
I will post an update whether I succeed or
not.
txt>.
Anyway, enjoy playing.
Didi
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Orna Agmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Oleg Kobets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Alpha XL 266
>
>
> > i
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Oleg Kobets wrote:
> I laid my hands on Alpha XL 266 today.
> What I want to know if there is a posibility to install linux on it and if yes,
>which distro.
I'd say debian is a good start.
http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/sys_types
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Quand les
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 the
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From: "Orna Agmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Oleg Kobets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Alpha XL 266
> i dont have experiance, but i know that soon OSF1 will not be supported,
> and compaq are now supporting linux
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002, Oleg Kobets wrote about "Alpha XL 266":
> Hi, List!
>
> I laid my hands on Alpha XL 266 today.
>..
> Now, I never worked with Alpha, but I want to install Linux on it, NOT NT4.
I understand why not NT, but what's wrong with Tru64 UNIX (vari
.
The only other bit that I have heard regarding Linux on an alpha is
that you don't use Lilo but milo. Not sure about it.
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Hi, List!
I laid my hands on Alpha XL 266 today.
What I want to know if there is a posibility to
install linux on it and if yes, which dis
Hi, List!
I laid my hands on Alpha XL 266 today.
What I want to know if there is a posibility to
install linux on it and if yes, which distro.
The machine specs are :
266Mhz Alpha CPU
128 RAM
Unknown SCSI HDD
SCSI CDROM
Matrox Millenium II Dual Head
Firmware 4.41
Now, I never
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