From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 22 1:47:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F2910E84 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 01:47:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05334; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:48:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990222204806.C4822@caamora.com.au> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:48:06 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: Jim King , Talbot NEIL , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1/4.0, the alpha, and a dog named blue... Mail-Followup-To: Jim King , Talbot NEIL , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.1.19990206063546.00931d50@130.102.41.66> <199902211508.JAA01899@oasis.zycor.lgc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199902211508.JAA01899@oasis.zycor.lgc.com>; from Jim King on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:08:32AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:08:32AM -0600, Jim King wrote: > At 06:39 AM 2/6/99 +1000, Talbot NEIL wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I have been trying to set up a Alphastation AS200 4/233 for the past 3 > >months and was wondering if anyone has had any luck with it. > > > >If so could you please email me with the details. > > > >I have FreeBSD Release 3.0 on cd Direct from Walnut creek. i have tried > >making the boot disks and everything. sorry, i cannot help, i'm in a similar sitiation, though different hardware. i currently have a multia, but have aspirations of building a real dec alpha server, grin. at teh moment i am looking at building a dec alpha machine based on these, dec alphapc 164sx (1m pb cache) + alpha 21164pc 533 mhz cpu, to this i plan to add 512 mb of full parity ecc dram and a matrox millenium2 with 16 mb dram i've seen several posts that talk about problems about alpha bios and srm things .. are any ot those things, problems an issue wih the mother board i plan to use. is anybody using one of those atx format dec alpha motherboards, are thier any older 'at' style form factor motherboards, availble, still available. i've given up waiting for teh merced and teh p3 is far to expensive fro what it is .. sorry this ast bit is my personal opinion. regards and with thanks in advance. cheers jonathan. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message