Re: Compaq-HP ES45 woody install
Hello Stefano,
The ES45 runs great on RH_7.2 for alpha which is supported by HP. If you
would like to use Debian that is great, but you will need to get some key
patches from the RH-7.2 kernel updates provided on the HP ftp sites.
--George
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:35 pm, Stefano Curtarolo, Ph.D. wrote:
> Fellows,
>
> has somebody ever had success installing woody or sid in an ES45
> (4x21264x1.25GHz)??
> I had no problems with potato and an ES40, but I think the ES45 has
> something different, because after aboot and the right paramenters, the
> screen turns black as if it were echoing to the console.... but the
> console remains deaf too... all the ttyS and the RJ too....
>
> To summarize:
> potato+ES40 = OK
> potato+ES45 = black screen
> woody+ES45 = black screen
> unstable(temp distribution)+ES45 = black screen
> redhat+ES45 = OK but I dont want RH....
>
> Therefore I`ll stick with Tru64 until I solve this problem.
>
> The beauty of these machines is that the HD is hot swap.. When I want to
> do tests, I remove the precious running Tru64 and pop an empty HD.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sincerely,
> Stefano Curtarolo
> (happy owner of an ES45).
>
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