On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:29:33AM -0400, socraxko, tomaxko's evil personality wrote: > i want to use some old as800 and want to install linux on it, i've only > tried with debian "etch" until now, i know that centos, *BSD and alpha core > are also available, but i want to stick with debian. > > this is my first time installing an alpha port of debian, booting process is > ok, installing process begins and stops at recognizing hardware because no > cd-rom "driver" is available, so install process can?t continue, i've also > tried to configure the network for remote install but the nic can?t be > recognized either.
Would it be possible to boot with a serial console and capture the boot messages? > i've googled for this with little success, the AS800 hardware is intact, > with no modifications, the cd drive i believe is DEC, all drives are scsi > but the floppy. > > the scsi board controller is a Qlogic qla1040. > > note: the debian-40r2-alpha-kde-CD-1.iso has 672.518.144 bytes, and the > cd-rom specs are 600mb, don?t know if this could be a problem. CDrom's generally handle 680MB. Looks fine to me. I have no idea what an as800 is, although I think my PWS433a has a qla1040 controller in it, but the CDrom is IDE on it, with the disk on the scsi controller. It installed just fine though. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]