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nick thompson <nicholas.thompson1@×××××.com> wrote on 04/01/2007 05:03:40 |
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> Thomas Cort wrote: |
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> > Welcome Nick, |
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> >> Anyone who has one of these machines, or knows anything about them, |
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> >> please let me know the goings on. |
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> > I have an AlphaServer 1000 4/233. I think it is pretty similar to what |
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> > you've got. A few things I ran into during the install.... |
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> > The CD-ROM drive wouldn't boot the live CD. I'm not sure if you'll run |
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> > into the same problem since the drive was really old and could have |
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> > just been broken. I replaced it with a used SCSI CD-ROM for $10 from |
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> > the local computer store and it booted just fine. |
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> > |
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> > If it doesn't power on at all, make sure the top panel of the case is |
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> > on and properly in place. The middle of the top panel of the case has |
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a |
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> > small piece of metal oriented downwards. When the top panel is put |
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back |
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> > in place properly, the small piece of metal will press down on a |
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> > switch. When the switch isn't pressed down, the system will refuse to |
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> > power on. |
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> >> Anyone who wants to tell a first time Alpha user some advice, I'm |
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> >> listening. :) |
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> >> |
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> > A few things to remember when partitioning.... "the first cylinder |
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> > cannot be used as the [bootloader] image will be placed there," so you |
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> > should start your partitions after the first cylinder. This is in the |
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> > documentation, but is easy to miss. Also, the bootloader (aboot) can |
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> > only boot kernels from ext2 and ext3 partitions. If you want to use |
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> > another filesystem for the root filesystem, you'll need to create a |
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> > separate /boot partition. |
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> > You CFLAGS should look like this "-mcpu=ev4 -pipe -O2 -mieee" |
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> > I might be wrong about the mcpu value (it could be ev45), check the |
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> > "cpu model" line in /proc/cpuinfo to see which is correct. The -mieee |
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> > enables full IEEE floating point support. |
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> > Documentation is available here: |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/doc/index.xml |
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> > You can ask for help on this mailing list, in #gentoo-alpha on |
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> > irc.freenode.net, and on the forums in the "Alternative Architecture" |
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> > forum. Bugs can be reported on http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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> > I hope that helped. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. |
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> > -Thomas |
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> > PS: if you want to impress your friends, you can change the text |
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> > displayed on the LCD by typing "SET OCP_TEXT MyText" (without quotes) |
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> > into the SRM console and rebooting. A picture of this is on my blog |
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> > http://mediumbagel.org/nucleus/index.php?itemid=9&catid=4 |
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> Anyone else have experience with a machine of this type? I am finally |
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> able to work on it now that I have reclaimed some room in my unix |
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> dungeon. :) Any info at all appreciated. |
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> Nick |
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> "All unix, all the time." |
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> http://npt.ath.cx |
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I have an AS1000 4/233 that I subsequently upgraded to a 5/333. Getting |
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Gentoo (and Windows NT) up and running was fairly painless. I too had a |
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problem with the CD-ROM drive. Finding a newer SCSI drive solved that |
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problem. The handbook was spot on about the disk partitioning and was |
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overall a big help. I stuck in a PCI Matrox card for video support and |
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even found enough parity RAM to have 512 MB. After some fiddling I had |
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Gnome running and was browsing with Firefox. With the 6 SCSI disks my |
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machine came with, it truly was a noisy beast of a system (and heavy!). |
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Unfortunately, the 5/333 CPU card died over a year ago; without another |
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ev5 card, I can't 'downgrade' the firmware back to support the 4/233 card |
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and reclaim my system :( |
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-Jeremy |
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