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Re: booting from CD on Alphastation 255



Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> We've got an old Alphastation 255 and wanted to install Debian on it. I
> downloaded rc3 of the new installer and burnt it to CD. Trouble is that
> it doesn't automatically boot from the CD. When I turn the machine on,
> it goes straight into OpenVMS. I can see the boot command on the console
> but it never stops with a prompt. Is there some key combination I need
> to prevent it booting from the hard disc?

If you press Ctrl-C (or perhaps Ctrl-Break) early enough and/or often
enough, you should be dumped back into the SRM console (with the >>>
prompt).

Cameron.

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