Re: A REAL installation opportunity!
I'm no alpha guru... I wanna be a user... OpenBSD?
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0700, Ted Rolle wrote:
> > I inherited an Alpha box with no hard drive. I'm going to Fry's to get a
> > 30-40G HD and a RW CD-ROM drive.
> >
> > I'd like to install Hurd on the box.
> >
> > Where to from here?
> >
> > Do I have to install Linux first? Can I boot from a floppy and go from
> > there (ftp install?)
>
> Unfortunately Hurd does not support Alpha yet. There was an attempt
> to port gnumach to Alpha, which would go most of the way to porting
> Hurd to that platform. But that project (hurd-alpha on sourceforge)
> seems to be dead/stalled for quite some time.
>
> Since you now have the hardware you might want to revive this port.
>
> Igor
>
>
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