All,
I've come in possession of an Alphastation 500/400 which has
OpenVMS. I would like to install Debian on it
however after hours of googling, I've discovered that I need to
know much more about this beast (read: *fun*) than I know about my
AMD-PC.
So this beast (out of respect, I won't call it a 'box') doesn't
have a monitor nor a graphic card. Thus, I use the serial port hooked
to an old hp-laptop.
I can see the bootup process starting, followed immediatly by
OpenVMS and then the login: prompt. No telltale sign of an
SRM console (">>>").
My question(s) are:
how to I get to the SRM console ? Is there a special key I have to
press ? (I am connected via serial port using Terminal.exe on win95!!)
If I am to disable OpenVMS to automagically bootup, I've learnt
that I have to disable some env 'auto_action' ? Can this be done
without SRM ?
I haven't tried it - but is the beast capable of booting off a
CDROM without instructing it via SRM ? (If yes, then I'll just wack
in a bootable debian install cd, right ?)
Please reply to the NG. Thanking you all in anticipation.
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Regards,
Rajnish
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