I recently came into posession of an AS2100 4/275, and immediately resolved myself to get Debian installed on it. I've run into a snag however, and that is the fact that the disks are on a DAC960-based hardware RAID card. I can boot the alpha install CD just fine, but during the boot process the DAC960 driver informs me that I have an unsupported card. Now, I've found a glimmer of hope (http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2003/debian-alpha-200302/msg00154.html), but the root of some of my troubles seems to be the lack of a 2.4.x option for the alpha install disks. I see at http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/ports-status.html#alpha that some progress has been made with debian-installer on alpha... can anyone shed some light on where that stands (is it something that one could hack together a working system with yet?). Barring that, does anyone have suggestions on how I could get Linux up and running on this system at all? (Any kind of Linux would work...all I *really* need is to get enough of a system running to bootstrap a Debian system :-). ANY suggestions or comments would be welcome. Thanks! -- Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net> "*I'm* your mother now, Frank." -Dr. Forrester. #513
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