Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:40:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mark thompson <thompson@gateway.tgsoft.com> Cc: tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alphastation 200 Message-ID: <199810211740.KAA00830@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Oct 1998 14:36:22 -0000." <19981021143622.1986.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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> Ah. I went to ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware. The neweset > version they have there is 6.8. It looks like to make a bootable update > floppy, you have to be able to run 'mkbootfirm', which is a DEC Unix > executeable... If only somebody would mail me the disk image of the > update diskette... I had some interesting adventures with an AS200 and firmware upgrades. The first thing to bear in mind is that the AS200 typically only has *one* flash prom onboard. If you install the ARC firmware, you'll be left with an ARC-only system (and getting back from there is not supported, although it is possible). I used bootp/tftpboot to perform the firmware upgrade; I don't actually recall whether it was the .sys or .exe file that you want to boot, but it's easy enough to try both of them. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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