On 29 Mar 2011, at 04:30, Michael Cree wrote:
To build Debian packages for the alpha architecture - in the full-blown
Debian way - a wanna-build server, buildd machine(s), and an apt repository
will be needed.
Official ones exist at the moment but, as noted above, it appears they may be
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 07:01:23PM -0400, Bill Parke wrote:
As I don't have any of the various vendors disks. I would expect
somewhere, soon they will have drives that kowtow to 512 byte block to
help windows and MBR booting. I know WD has a Address+1 patch to make
MBR work in 512byte
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Robert Garron
robert.gar...@access3000.net wrote:
Stop creating a new thread every time you reply. It makes reading the
email chains difficult.
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Robert Garron
robert.gar...@access3000.net wrote:
Joel,
Can your group do what Bill is asking below?
Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig...
Regards,
Robert
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Subject: Disk drives
Date: Mon March 28 2011
(Recipient list is getting a bit unwieldy. That's not necessarily a bad
thing :-). Delighted to see all the interest in Alpha, even if it took
the community a while to wake up.)
Agreed that Steve Langasek is a logical/necessary person to contact if
this revival has a chance of succeeding.
As
On 03-29 16:30, Michael Cree wrote:
On 29/03/2011, at 3:34 PM, Craig Prescott wrote:
FWIW, though, I don't think we're going to get far asking Debian
leadership about a *Squeeze* release on Alpha. I think that ship
sailed in 2009.
Absolutely. The time to do something about the Squeeze
On 24/03/11 20:17, Robert Garron wrote:
I just found out that alpha was dropped from squeeze
[snip]
; and it seems that a few other alpha enthusiasts are willing also
I'm prepared to pitch in and help. I am not a Debian Developer, but I
have over the last two or three years stepped up to
[bcc'd to a few]
--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote:
I just found out that alpha was dropped from squeeze
[snip]
; and it seems that a few other alpha enthusiasts are
willing also
I'm prepared to pitch in and help. I am not a Debian
Developer, but I have over
Hi Phil-
Well happy to connect with you. I agree we will have to move swiftly to get
Alpha back in with Debian...
All I need is direction as to what to do, when to do (now), and who to contact
(our growing list - but who in Debian land to contact). I do appreciate
your provided list of
; gand...@gmail.com; Rafael
Ruiz; bill.pa...@access3000.net; Richard Holstein; j...@pyramiddec.com
Subject: Re: current status of alpha in squeeze
Hi Phil-
Well happy to connect with you. I agree we will have to move swiftly to get
Alpha back in with Debian...
All I need is direction
Rafa,
Hi - glad to hear that you can help. All willing workers are welcomed. We
have a growing small group that can accomplish this task. Who know where it
will lead and what opportunities and adventures it can open.
You are on the growing group mailing list. We are getting organized and
Michael Cree wrote:
On 24/03/11 20:17, Robert Garron wrote:
I just found out that alpha was dropped from squeeze
[snip]
; and it seems that a few other alpha enthusiasts are willing also
I'm prepared to pitch in and help. I am not a Debian Developer, but I
have over the last two or three
Joel,
Can your group do what Bill is asking below?
Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig...
Regards,
Robert
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Subject: Disk drives
Date: Mon March 28 2011
From: Bill Parke bill.pa...@access3000.net
To: Robert Garron robert.gar...@access3000.net,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Joel Nimar joel.ni...@pyramiddec.com wrote:
Hi Robert:
Glad to hear from you and thank you for your kind words. Pyramid can help
you with firmware upgrades. We have microfiche and cd's that tell us the
minimal acceptable revision level for maintenance and a
Hello to the new alpha team
I want to offer my help with my old Alpha computers.
But I only can make installing and hardware tests (video-cards, memory,
USB-cards, TV-cards? and other).
Computers: DEC 500au and DEC 433au
I did not find any distribution which could run on my alphas.
Are my
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:28 PM, A.B. arne-bomb...@foni.net wrote:
I did not find any distribution which could run on my alphas.
I don't think you looked very hard. I wrote this page in Nov 2008 and
it's barely changed since:
On 03-28 12:43, Robert Garron wrote:
Joel,
Can your group do what Bill is asking below?
Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig...
Regards,
Robert
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Subject: Disk drives
Date: Mon March 28 2011
From: Bill Parke bill.pa...@access3000.net
I do use a 1TB disk on my 164LX using a pci SATA card. However I was never
able to boot from it. Maybe by pure lack of knowledge, or maybe because it's
not possible at all. If anyone know the magic, please share the magic words
: )
Also, I can put myself and my machine (Microway AlphaPC 164LX
On 29/03/2011, at 9:31 AM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
As of disks, I have a one disk (Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB),
which I can attach for a brief period of time into my Alpha,
using PCI SATA controler. But I think other people is already using
such disks in their machines. Can anybody
On 03-28 21:11, Michael Cree wrote:
On 24/03/11 20:17, Robert Garron wrote:
I just found out that alpha was dropped from squeeze
[snip]
; and it seems that a few other alpha enthusiasts are willing also
I'm prepared to pitch in and help. I am not a Debian Developer, but
I have over the
On 03-28 17:42, Geoff Martin wrote:
I do use a 1TB disk on my 164LX using a pci SATA card. However I was never
able to boot from it. Maybe by pure lack of knowledge, or maybe because it's
not possible at all. If anyone know the magic, please share the magic words
I think it is impossble to do
On 03-29 09:44, Michael Cree wrote:
On 29/03/2011, at 9:31 AM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
As of disks, I have a one disk (Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB),
which I can attach for a brief period of time into my Alpha,
using PCI SATA controler. But I think other people is already using
such disks
Hi,
As of disks, I have a one disk (Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB),
which I can attach for a brief period of time into my Alpha, using PCI
SATA controler. But I think other people is already using such disks
in their machines. Can anybody confirm?
I have a 1.5TB SATA disc
I was thinking... what about those SATA cards with SCSI emulation? maybe it
can be possible to trick SRM into thinking it's an SCSI card. It's insane, I
know...
Currently, I keep the original 9GB SCSI disk and card just to boot the
system, but I wonder if I can use one of those CF 2 IDE and
Thank you for helpful suggestions
Am 28.03.2011 22:04, schrieb Matt Turner:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:28 PM, A.B.arne-bomb...@foni.net wrote:
I did not find any distribution which could run on my alphas.
I've been not very exactly, sorry. In the past i already tried a very
old version of a
On 3/28/2011 4:31 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
On 03-28 12:43, Robert Garron wrote:
Joel,
Can your group do what Bill is asking below?
Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig...
Regards,
Robert
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Subject: Disk drives
Date: Mon March 28 2011
From: Bill
Hi,
As I don't have any of the various vendors disks. I would expect
somewhere, soon they will have drives that kowtow to 512 byte block
to help windows and MBR booting. I know WD has a Address+1 patch
to make MBR work in 512byte mode.
This is not alpha specific. Proper partitioning on
Hi.
Are my computers interesting and/or practical for your purposes or are the
realy out-dated?
They're pretty outdated, especially things older than EV6. For, say,
an 800 MHz UP1500, it's a usable, if a bit slow, system.
Oh - i thought that the Alphas are very old - but not ueseless and
Robert Garron wrote:
Is it too late to organize a group and to have them work together to put
alpha back on to the release list?
I have been out of town. Sorry for the slow reply.
I'd love to see Alpha back as a release architecture in Debian. But for
this to happen, my intuition is that
Robert Garron wrote:
All I need is direction as to what to do, when to do (now), and who to contact
(our growing list - but who in Debian land to contact). I do appreciate
your provided list of contacts - I hope they all respond to our call to have
Alpha Squeeze...
I want to thank you for
Craig,
Hi - see below
On Mon March 28 2011 10:34:01 Craig Prescott wrote:
Robert Garron wrote:
All I need is direction as to what to do, when to do (now), and who to
contact (our growing list - but who in Debian land to contact). I do
appreciate your provided list of
Hi --
I just found out that alpha was dropped from squeeze due to the fact
that Arthur Loiret was unable to complete the work for the release, as
he was working alone. Had I known this way earlier I would have
volunteer services to help Arthur; and it seems that a few other alpha
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:21:17 +0200
Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote:
Forgive my ignorance, but I've got a question.
* Arthur Loiret (aloi...@debian.org) [090816 00:06]:
To be short, I still intend to help for the alpha port, but I don't
think it will be enough for an official
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:57:38PM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:21:17 +0200
Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote:
* Arthur Loiret (aloi...@debian.org) [090816 00:06]:
To be short, I still intend to help for the alpha port, but I don't
think it will be enough for an
* Arthur Loiret (aloi...@debian.org) [090816 00:06]:
To be short, I still intend to help for the alpha port, but I don't
think it will be enough for an official release. It would be great if
some other interested people had time to dedicate to the port.
Unfortunatly we have to agree with this
Hi Steve,
Sorry for the long time to answer, I'm just back from six weeks
without a real Internet connection. Unfortunately, I'm going to have
limited time to dedicate to Debian for the next months. I should still
be able to sign build logs, do manual rebuilds for FTBFS, and fix some
of them when
Hi Arthur,
At DebConf, the release team has discussed the state of the various Debian
ports and their viability for squeeze, and a number of concerns were
expressed about alpha.
I've added a couple more serious issues to the list on
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