From: Ben Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>
To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dead things
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:39:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040527T123909Z_FFB700000000@mail2.cu-portland.edu> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2004-05-27 19:39 UTC|newest]
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2004-05-27 19:39 Ben Huntsman [this message]
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2004-05-27 14:29 Jean Mehat
2004-05-27 18:33 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-27 21:12 ` ron minnich
2004-05-27 21:14 ` boyd, rounin
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