RE: Updated installation images 2019-01-20
Frank Scheiner [mailto:frank.scheiner@web.de] appears to have written:
>
> On 5/10/19 21:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> On May 10, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Skye <skye@20maguire.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was able to boot from CDROM and the loading ran fine until it got
> to the
> >> hardware discovery phase. It was unable to find the CD-ROM
> hardware. My
> >> AlphaStations all have the Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM player.
>
> Good to hear that! Last time I tested Debian GNU/Linux Sid (not the
> installer!) on my older AlphaStations with EV4(5) they hang during
> kernel boot. Looks like I should give them another try with the
> current kernel and userland. Thanks for the encouraging information.
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
Cheers Frank!
Yes, it is encouraging. Kudos to Adrian and team for all their work.
If anyone knows of a decent rescue disk for Alpha please let me know. I have two workstations which require password recovery.
Skye
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