Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:12:51 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Oliver Fehr" <Oliver.Fehr@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux Message-ID: <13982.12626.940502.38000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <002801be3fe0$7a4ea070$20760d09@ofehr.com> References: <002801be3fe0$7a4ea070$20760d09@ofehr.com>
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Oliver Fehr writes: > Hi. > I've been playing around with Linux on my DEC PWS 500a it worked really well. > Since I know FreeBSD for Intel quite a bit a would like to do my machine a favour and > install it. > Is this machine type supported and are there any caveats? Some: - you'll need to use the SRM console. That means you need to have a supported scsi card to be able to boot it. Like the DEC OEM qlogic isp1040. If you have a newer machine with the scsi chip on the motherboard, you should be OK. - there's currently no IDE support, so an atapi cdrom, for example, won't work - there's no support for floppies (but you *CAN* boot off a floppy, you just cannot use it once the kernel is loaded). - so far, there's not much in the way of ISA support beyond keyboard & mouse. Other than that, it works great. A 500au is my main FreeBSD/alpha development machine.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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