From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jan 14 10:14:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10308 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:14:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10257 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:14:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA27724; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:12:53 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA16022; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:12:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:12:51 -0500 (EST) To: "Oliver Fehr" CC: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux In-Reply-To: <002801be3fe0$7a4ea070$20760d09@ofehr.com> References: <002801be3fe0$7a4ea070$20760d09@ofehr.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13982.12626.940502.38000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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