Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:11:05 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable? Message-ID: <20060110181105.GA23635@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060110145845.GV25702@seekingfire.com> References: <20060107232833.GA53165@seekingfire.com> <20060107233120.GA556@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060107233606.GB53165@seekingfire.com> <20060108091346.GA2801@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060110145845.GV25702@seekingfire.com>
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:58:45AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote.. > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:13:46AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:36:06PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote.. > > > > > What are other folks doing with their 2100As these days? > > > > Scrap them? I was offered one recently but politely declined :) > > Ack, not what I was expecting :-) Well, I have limited space at home. 3 Alphas now, and that is enough. > OpenVMS isn't of interest to me, I have vaxen for that ;-) I have a mVAXII, running Ultrix-11 ;) > I've also looked at the $99 Tru64 "non-commerical" license. But it's > only of mild interest -- tying this box into my FreeBSD 6/7 network > would have made the hardware differences trasparent. > > Does 4.x boot on the 2100A? Reading the archives I came a cross a few > references to that. It is a long time ago I tried it, our 2100A has gone away years ago. So you would need to find someone who has recently tried one. But I am still puzzled the 2100A did not even attempt to boot. Have you verified the CDR on another Alpha? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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