Hi all. I have a Jensen (DEC 2000/150 AXP) machine with 64M of RAM and 3 SCSI disks (2Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb) and a SCSI cdrom. I would like to run debian on it, as other distros don't support "oficially" jensen machines.
I have downloaded Debian 2.2 r6 for alpha and booted with the CD (as Jensens dont boot from floppy) In the SRM console >>> boot dka400 (dka400 is the cdrom) After that I see the aboot console. My first try was to boot from the pre-configured kernels aboot> 0 An it boots, but it hangs after writing some messages about the parallel port. Well, its better than RedHat, that hangs after Starting kswapd. I started to search in the cd, looking for a specific jensen kernel and I found it in cd 1 /dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux I tried to boot from this image with several combinations (Im not an expert with aboot) aboot> dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin aboot> 0/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin aboot> 1/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin But It cant boot. There are also some floppy images under /dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/images-1.44 But, for what are they? Jensens cant boot from floppy disks. Are these images for booting from aboot? I know that there are jensen machines with Debian. If somebody could help me, I would be very grateful. Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
