Re: Debian on a Alphaserver 1200

[Angelo Machils <angelus@sangreal.demon.nl>]

Hello!

Although it tries to access the CD (I can see the LED flashing) I now get the messages:

* device dka0.0.0.1.1 no longer valid (4 times)
* failed to open dka0.0.0.1.1

Is it a problem that it is a RW disc????

Greetings, Angelo

Lyndsay Roger wrote:

> On Mon Aug 16 04 at 10:19:41AM, Angelo Machils wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm totally new on Alpha, but I got this Alphaserver 1200 (one CPU 
> > version) and I'm trying to install Debian on it. But after the reboot 
> > when I give the command "boot dka500 -flags 0" it returns with the 
> > following error-message:
> > * dka500.5.0.1.1 has no media present or is disabled via the RUN/STOP 
> > switch (this message 4 times)
> > * failed to open dka500.5.0.1.1
> >
> >    
> Try 
> boot dka0 -flags 0
>
> On mine dka0 to dka3 are the 4 disk drives and dka5 is the cdrom.
> dka0 should tell it to boot from the first disk which you should have
> installed Linux to.
>
>