Re: Alpha newbie install woes
> It's a horrible boot process, and it's the only machine that does this.
Oh, well... It's what I have, so I hope I can make it work...
> From Memory (I sold mine). You need to get ldmilo, and a milo.
> The best way to do this is to get the ruffian.img from an older (6.2)
redhat
> release. That should boot milo to the point where you can do work. To make
> it more fun, it will be a 2.0.something MILO, which can have problems with
> newer kernels :(.
What are the problems with MILO and the 2.2 series? Also, would I use
rawrite <sp?> to create the disk? What is the process here?
> And, there are two versions of ldmilo.exe, one that says "Jay's hacked
> version". As far as I recall, that version is better, and behaves itself
> more correctly.
The one I have is the "Jay's hacked version" from the Debian install cd, it
says that the system doies not support Alpha/Linux, I'll try the dec one.
Thanks,
--Shannon
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