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Skye -----Original Message----- From: Michael Cree [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2019 12:53 PM To: Bob Tracy Cc: Skye; [email protected] Subject: Re: congratulations in order On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 08:44:01AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:15:17PM -0600, Skye wrote: > > Congrats! Can you tell us how you got to that point? I need to bring up a > > series of servers next week and dreading my ignorance. They are currently > > running an old release of Red Hat. > > Short answer: up-to-date Debian "sid" (unstable) on a PWS 433au with > a kernel built from the latest kernel.org source tree. > > Longer answer: your mileage *will* vary, depending on your hardware. > > The hardest part of "getting to that point" is going to be bootstrapping > from nothing. The debian-alpha archives have *many* postings that will > attest to that :-(. I probably missed it, but we might have an install > CD at this point that includes enough of the needed drivers to > accomplish an installation. The generic kernel has been fixed. The install CD should work except if you need non-free firmware such as the qlogic firmware. If you have USB that gives a way of supplying the firmware to the installer. > If not, the known traditional trouble spots > are video and disk controller support. You can always install by serial port and bring up the video later. In particular, if you have a radeon card you will need to build your own kernel with an inbuilt radeon driver to bring up full video. > If you clear that hurdle, > successfully partitioning hard disks on alpha is more difficult than it > should be, and depends entirely on what tool you choose: recent "fdisk" > versions on alpha are broken -- see the debian-alpha archives for > workarounds. Use parted. I believe the install disk now uses that. Cheers, Michael.
