From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 11 11:10:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A2237BAEF for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 99c8f334c649856e3f2cdadc4054e412) with ESMTP id <20000411180556.BKEJ25416.relay02@chello.nl>; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:05:56 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02036; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:05:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:05:55 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Michael Lucas Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting install disk Message-ID: <20000411200554.G410@yedi.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: <200004111426.KAA05686@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004111426.KAA05686@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:26:39AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:26:39AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > I just found myself the proud owner of an utterly obsolete and > completely undocumented Alpha system. Being a masochist, I decided to > install FreeBSD. > > There's a friendly little menu system when the box boots, labeling it > a "ARC Multiboot Alpha AXP Version 3.5-7", and a boot menu. Yuck! The very least you need is SRM console firmware. > I'd be delighted to send along hardware details, but there's no model > number on the box. It's brown, flat, rather like a miniature desktop > PC case. Four audio ports on the front. The motherboard slides out > the back. Is it a Digital product? Dimensions? Partnumbers of the actual PCB? Digital style part# are like 54-xxxxx-xx for a populated PCB. > Does anybody have any idea what this machine is, and where I could get > more information on it? I'd love to do a FreeBSD/Alpha article, but I First supply a bit more info on what it looks like. My first guess: Multia of some sorts? -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message