From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 18:11:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.kc.rr.com (fe4.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163DF37B491 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:10:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from zephur ([65.26.107.73]) by mail4.kc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sat, 10 Feb 2001 20:08:16 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Will L G" To: Subject: I have a question about FreeBSD, Alpha, and Milo... Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 20:11:27 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C0939D.A658A630" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C0939D.A658A630 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I was wondering, I went through the hoops to purchase a Dec Alpha to run FreeBSD. I searched high and low for an SRM update in which to run FreeBSD. Unfortunately I’m out of luck, all it runs is Arc/AlphaBios… Thus I can only run either Linux or WinNT. I was wondering are there any plans to work around this problem, the inability of FreeBSD to run on Arc/AlphaBIOS and not require an alpha machine to support SRM? Also, is there a way around this problem of not being able to update to SRM? Such as running Milo in order to run FreeBSD? FreeBSD is one of my favorite OS’s and I would hate to go to linux. Not to knock linux but it appears to be a crazy quilt of patches and software. Not as uniform as FreeBSD. The system in question: Dec Alpha XL 300mhz cpu 32mb ram 2mb cache 2gb SCSI etc. Thank you, Will L G ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C0939D.A658A630 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I was wondering, I went through the hoops to purchase a Dec Alpha = to run FreeBSD. I searched high and low for an SRM update in which to run = FreeBSD. Unfortunately I’m out of luck, all it runs is Arc/AlphaBios… = Thus I can only run either Linux or WinNT.

 

I was wondering are there any plans to work around this problem, = the inability of FreeBSD to run on Arc/AlphaBIOS and not require an alpha = machine to support SRM?

 

Also, is there a way around this problem of not being able to = update to SRM? Such as running Milo in order to run FreeBSD? FreeBSD is one of my favorite OS’s and I would hate to go to linux.  Not to knock linux but it appears to be a crazy quilt = of patches and software.  Not = as uniform as FreeBSD.

 

The system in question:

Dec Alpha XL

300mhz cpu

32mb ram

2mb cache

2gb SCSI

etc.

 

Thank you, Will L G

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