Andrew MacNamara (am1129@albany.edu) wrote: > The old PC is just parts from an old 486/motherboard/case > etc. Unfortunately no floppy disk drive :( Ahh bummer. Well maybe you could borrow one from some place else? > (I'm surprised too... but NT is just what's there. I cracked the local > admin password -- surprisingly easy with nt 3.51 -- and then booted just > to make sure it worked.) Just to verify this is a 164LX-based motherboard, right? There are a few other old non-Linux friendly Alphas that have "LX" in the model name. > I tried the cable from the 486, and that showed the same problems. I'm > going to post a description of the cables I used (i.e. where the twist is, > etc.) when I get home tonight. I hope it is the floppy drive too... Though > once I get potato installed and bootable from the HD, it shouldn't be much > of a problem. Maybe I'll just temporarily swap drives out of my > AS200; I have to reinstall that box anyway. You could probably "borrow" the floppy drive out of the AS200 and try it and also the cable. > Just in case, though, is there such a thing as an ISA based floppy > controller card that I could use instead of the motherboard controller? There are ISA floppy controllers, but I have no idea if they will work in an Alpha and with Linux. Ron
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