[9fans] dead things

[9fans] dead things

[Jean Mehat]

About alef on sources :
> This kind of reminds me of porting Plan 9 to dead things...

Speaking of dead things, I got a few Dec Alpha Personal Workstation
from around 1997-1998, moribound but still alive.

Until now, I succeeded in loading a kernel,running factotum which asks
for a user name (but not for a password). Apparently connectil fails
to establish a connnection between the booting terminal and the
auth/file server.

I imagined that the auth/file server was ok, since drawterm succeed
(from a SunOs machine).

(The ethernet card is recognized as announced by a line printed by the kernel)

Any suggestion ? Anyone (still) using alphapc ?

jm

Re: [9fans] dead things

[boyd, rounin]

> Any suggestion ? Anyone (still) using alphapc ?

i can get my hands on one, but it's a bit big, from ENS.

i've been told that a strongARM would be a better choice
and that i could get one.

'spose i should fix a VAIO broke last night first.

i hate that PC 'architecture' -- i really do  --  fait chier ...

Re: [9fans] dead things

[ron minnich]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, boyd, rounin wrote:

> i've been told that a strongARM would be a better choice and that i
> could get one.

yes, that's a chip with a future.

ron

Re: [9fans] dead things

[boyd, rounin]

> yes, that's a chip with a future.

yeah, i was disuaded from talking the alpha.

i should get back to it, but i have the odd other battle to fight first.

Re: [9fans] dead things

[Ben Huntsman]

Very interesting that you ask, because I've been looking to start using my loaded AlphaServer 1000 as my main Plan 9 system.  Unfortunately, my terminal just broke.  So though I don't suppose you could call it a 'pc', it's still an Alpha, and theoretically should boot.  Anyone know if it's strictly necessary to load bootalphapc via ether, or couldn't it just be loaded from a disc, since SRM will boot from discs?  

>>> Jean Mehat<jm@ai.univ-paris8.fr> 5/27/2004 7:29:04 AM >>>

About alef on sources :
> This kind of reminds me of porting Plan 9 to dead things...

Speaking of dead things, I got a few Dec Alpha Personal Workstation
from around 1997-1998, moribound but still alive.

Until now, I succeeded in loading a kernel,running factotum which asks
for a user name (but not for a password). Apparently connectil fails
to establish a connnection between the booting terminal and the
auth/file server.

I imagined that the auth/file server was ok, since drawterm succeed
(from a SunOs machine).

(The ethernet card is recognized as announced by a line printed by the kernel) 

Any suggestion ? Anyone (still) using alphapc ?

jm