Rescue Disks

[Loic Prylli <Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr>]

BOHICA writes:
 > I just aquired a Digital AlphaServer 300 4/266 from a company that is
 > going out of business, currently Windows NT Server is installed.
 > 
 > I have been using Debian on my desktop and laptop x86 machines for a
 > while and would like to try Debian Linux on the Alpha.
 > 
 > Which set of boot disks should I use to install 

Hi, the boot disks to use are the avanti set (information taken from 
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Kernels/Test-Milos-2.0.30+/MILO-systypes, 
hopefully it should appear in the Debian docs at some point) 

 >  should I flash
 > upgrade the BIOS to the latest rev?

Well it may be a good idea if you have problems, in general I would
say it is not required.

Loic