From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 11:28:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F2D14E6D for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:28:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA16652; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:28:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) Message-Id: <199909101828.OAA16652@misha.cisco.com> Subject: Re: most FreeBSD-like Linux In-Reply-To: <73FC0300EDDAD211872300902746017B01D11D@CFU9> from "Jim O'Donald" at "Sep 10, 1999 01:06:23 pm" To: "Jim O'Donald" Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:28:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, port-alpha@netbsd.org, netbsd-help@netbsd.org Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com From: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim O'Donald once wrote: > Why not use NetBSD or OpenBSD? On Alpha they all have the same limitation of only being bootable from SRM. Only Linux can be booted from what's called "MILO", as far as I understand :( See http://www.alphalinux.com/ -mi > -----Original Message----- > From: Mikhail Teterin [mailto:mi@aldan.algebra.com] > Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:07 PM > To: questions@freebsd.org; alpha@freebsd.org > Subject: most FreeBSD-like Linux > > > Hi! Being forced into a Linux land by FreeBSD's inability to run on my > AlphaXL 300, I need to choose a Linux distribution. I'm not asking > "which is the best one", but "which is the most FreeBSD-like"? I put > the Debian on so far, and it seems nice, but different from FreeBSD... > > Thanks for your input, > > -mi > > P.S. Why can't boot/loader or kernel be booted from MILO? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message