Frank Scheiner [mailto:[email protected]] appears to have written: > > On 5/10/19 21:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On May 10, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Skye <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I was able to boot from CDROM and the loading ran fine until it got > to the > >> hardware discovery phase. It was unable to find the CD-ROM > hardware. My > >> AlphaStations all have the Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM player. > > Good to hear that! Last time I tested Debian GNU/Linux Sid (not the > installer!) on my older AlphaStations with EV4(5) they hang during > kernel boot. Looks like I should give them another try with the > current kernel and userland. Thanks for the encouraging information. > :-) > > Cheers, > Frank
Cheers Frank! Yes, it is encouraging. Kudos to Adrian and team for all their work. If anyone knows of a decent rescue disk for Alpha please let me know. I have two workstations which require password recovery. Skye
