From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 5 20:17:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5432B37B496 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14lMkh-0004QZ-00; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 03:17:35 +0000 To: "First, Tim" , "'wkb@freebie.demon.nl'" , "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" From: wkb@freebie.demon.nl Subject: RE: 4.3RC2 on AlphaServer 2100A (Lynx) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 03:17:35 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@wkb@freebie.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 161.114.88.74 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I already have the latest SRM firmware on the box. I tried that after I had > problems with 4.2 before doing my research. I will try the new kernel from > Drew tomorrow morning when I get into work. OK, then that is settled. > I don't have a license for Tru64, and as I recall it was relitively > expensive last time I checked. This box currently has no useful purpose to For .edu there are cheap licenses I think, but I was not suggesting to put Tru64 on it permanently but just check if you could install it OK. Again, I think Drew might be right on the EV4/EV5 issue. My AS2100A is in .nl and I'm currently in .hk so I am unfortunately not able to help out in testing. I have no EV5 CPUs for the Lynx anyway. > us, and I am trying to give it one. I tried to trade it in, but just can't > justify getting $3200 from dell for a box that cost us $750K four years ago. > I am hoping to get a unix variant running on this to run amanda on and give > it some more life. I don't want to throw it away, but it's not worth > $7500/year for maintainence. It most definitely not worth that amount of money ;-) Donate it to Drew :) Wilko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message