From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 9 12: 1:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9260D37B58D for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (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 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26750; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA11194; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:01:14 -0400 (EDT) (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, 9 Aug 2000 15:01:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Jan Bacher Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Installation In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000809104722.00b3f7f0@stc.shawneelink.net> References: <4.2.2.20000809104722.00b3f7f0@stc.shawneelink.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14737.42877.452904.309378@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jan Bacher writes: > I have some PC16LXs running Tru64 and NT that I am going to install with > FreeBSD. > > Which console(s) work with this OS? Anything but a DEC TGA card should work, assuming the SRM console can drive it. Ie, a VGA card or a serial console. There are some newer cards which the SRM console cannot deal with, but since you're running Tru64, this isn't likely to be a problem. Before installing, you may want to read the HARDWARE.TXT file that accompanies the installation. See the alpha-specific section of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.1-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message