Hello Stefano, The ES45 runs great on RH_7.2 for alpha which is supported by HP. If you would like to use Debian that is great, but you will need to get some key patches from the RH-7.2 kernel updates provided on the HP ftp sites.
--George On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:35 pm, Stefano Curtarolo, Ph.D. wrote: > Fellows, > > has somebody ever had success installing woody or sid in an ES45 > (4x21264x1.25GHz)?? > I had no problems with potato and an ES40, but I think the ES45 has > something different, because after aboot and the right paramenters, the > screen turns black as if it were echoing to the console.... but the > console remains deaf too... all the ttyS and the RJ too.... > > To summarize: > potato+ES40 = OK > potato+ES45 = black screen > woody+ES45 = black screen > unstable(temp distribution)+ES45 = black screen > redhat+ES45 = OK but I dont want RH.... > > Therefore I`ll stick with Tru64 until I solve this problem. > > The beauty of these machines is that the HD is hot swap.. When I want to > do tests, I remove the precious running Tru64 and pop an empty HD. > > Thanks, > > Sincerely, > Stefano Curtarolo > (happy owner of an ES45). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof. Stefano Curtarolo > Duke University, Dept. Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science > 144 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708-0300 > phone 919-660-5506 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nietzsche.mems.duke.edu > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
