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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:26:10 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "Michael G. Jung" <mikej@confluenttech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Type 11 hardware
Message-ID:  <20010831002610.A15972@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <83AA574D7386D94D8475AFE832D6DC625470@neo.confluentasp.local>; from mikej@confluenttech.com on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:18:46PM -0400
References:  <83AA574D7386D94D8475AFE832D6DC625470@neo.confluentasp.local>

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:18:46PM -0400, Michael G. Jung wrote:

That is exactly *not* what you should do ;)

Multia support was removed from the -current boot floppy kernel (lack
of space) quite recently.

4.4RC works, tried it last week on my multia.

W/

> Hmmmm.. I tried loading 5.0 from the latest snapshot floppies on
> ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/5.0-20010721-CURRE
> NT/floppies
> 
> It's from the boot floppies that I got type 11 not supported.
> 
> Can you tell me if the install kernel on the 4.4-RC2 ISO just
> out should work?  If so I'll pull and burn one tommorow.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> --mikej
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:53 PM
> To: Michael G. Jung
> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Type 11 hardware
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:48:08PM -0400, Michael G. Jung wrote:
> > Wilko:
> > 
> > Well they are not in a case... Yet.... They 
> > are designed to be installed in a rack? as they
> 
> No, in a small tabletop (see attached jpg)
> 
> > They ID as Multia SRM Console BL5- V3.0.3 Built on Aug 10 1995 .....
> 
> Yikes.. Ancient. You can grab the very latest at:
> 
> ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/wilko/multia-srm.tar.gz  
> 
> > I've got NetBSD 1.5.1 running on one of them.  Not 
> > that there is anything wrong with NetBSD but......
> > 
> > They were free to me and I'd really like to 
> > continue the FreeBSD experience on alpha.
> 
> FreeBSD runs on these puppies. I have one Multia left (233MHz one), sold
> the other one last weekend.
> 
> My best guess is you have a kernel that lacks the proper config file
> lines.
> What FreeBSD rev do you have?
> 
> Wilko
> -- 
> |   / o / /  _   	Arnhem, The Netherlands    	email:
> wilko@FreeBSD.org
> |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte	
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