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From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>
To: 'John Polstra' <jdp@polstra.com>, alpha@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Dual boot FreeBSD + OSF1?
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:14:37 -0400 
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Upgrading the firmware is always a good idea.
Can't hurt it.
Unless you are working with very strange ports of Oracle of course :-)

Dual booting an alpha is simple impossible to screw it up. Put Tru64 UNIX on
one disk (dka0) and the other operting system on a second disk (dka100).

I don't know what you are currently using for "boot_osflags" but Tru64
doesn't want any.

Enjoy.

----Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: John Polstra [mailto:jdp@polstra.com]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:11 PM
To: alpha@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dual boot FreeBSD + OSF1?


You might remember I asked before about setting up a dual-boot alpha
for FreeBSD and OSF1 (aka Tru64).  I've installed the 2nd disk and
I've received the software, so I'm ready to proceed.  But I have a
couple of questions to make sure I don't shoot myself in the foot.
The system is running FreeBSD just dandy and I don't want to mess that
up.

The Tru64 release comes with a "Firmware Update V5.6" CD-ROM which
you are supposed to install first.  Should I really?  My system as
it stands currently has the following characteristics as reported by
"show config":

    Aspen Systems Durango II Workstation
    SRM Console T4.9-51
    VMS Palcode V1.20-1
    OSF Palcode V1.22-1
    SROM Revision 3.1
    Alpha 21164A-2

I'm not even sure which of these the "firmware update" will affect.

Second, I notice that "show os_type" reports "NT".  Should I change
it to "unix"?

Thanks in advance,
Mr. Worry Wart


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