From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 16 13:45:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6F737B630 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE32132E4 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08956; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:45:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA22957; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:44:50 -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: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:44:49 -0500 (EST) To: Dirk Kleinhesselink Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help installing FreeBSD 4.0 on AlphaStation 200 In-Reply-To: References: <20000216213419.B2716@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14507.6310.52769.784517@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dirk Kleinhesselink writes: > I'm confused, because FreeBSD won't boot from the ARC/AlphaBIOS and so the > only machines one can use for it are "real DEC/Compaq" machines -- I Specifically, what hardware are you talking about? It might not be as bad as you think. You can run SRM on the PC164 series of machines, as well as on the a series of Miatas (eg, DPW433a). The only machines which are really locked into AlphaBios/arc are the NT-only DEC branded machines like the Alpha XL (233, 266, 300, 366, 433). > would've figured that the DEC/Compaq machines that ran UNIX (or > OpenVMS) would run FreeBSD, but I guess this isn't the case. Are there > any video cards supported by Digital UNIX/Tru64/OpenVMS that will > work with FreeBSD ? Off the top of my head, I would imagine that the Elsa Gloria Synergy should work just fine, as it is a 3D-labs Permedia2 based card. The S3-trio64 and the Mach64 cards which shipped in AlphaStations should also work. I had a Mach64 going in an AlphaStation200 about a year ago. 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