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Hi there |
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I am running Gentoo quite smoothly on a DEC AlphaServer 1000A, which is also |
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EV5. In fact, this machine has been serving successfully and reliably as our |
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mail(sendmail+clamav+spamassassin+mailscanner+imp)/ftp(proftp)/web(apache) |
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server at my local organization. |
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All the best, |
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Joao Patricio |
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On Monday 23 August 2004 18:32, Paul Baughman wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm new to this list. I searched the archives but couldn't find an answer, |
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> so I'm throwing this out to y'all. |
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> Does gentoo now, or are there plans to make this, install and run on a DEC |
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> AlphaServer 2100A? I've been told this is an EV5 architecture, but since |
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> I'm not an expert this could be wrong. |
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> I snagged two of these machines and I'd like to get a *nix distro running. |
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> If the bottleneck is lack of a machine I am quite willing to do the |
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> testing, but I can't get the alpha port to boot up at all, so experts |
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> elsewhere are needed. |
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> If this isn't a likely development, does anyone know of an alternative? I |
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> have yet to find one that claims this as a supported architecture. I've |
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> looked at FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, RedHat, etc. |
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> I know HP offers RedHat 7.2-alpha but i'm having a problem. HP has a |
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> 'wrapper' CD that will boot the machine, but when I stick in the RH-alpha |
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> install CD (also downloaded from HP) it won't recognize it. |
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> Any suggestions appreciated. |
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> TIA. |
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> Paul. |
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