Hi Adam, On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:22:06PM -0500, Adam Mercer wrote:
> At work I've been given the task of installing Debian on an old Alpha > XL 300 that is currenty running Red Hat 6.2. I have never installed > Linux on a non x86 plaform before so am having quite a lot of > difficulty. > >From what I can gather from the documentation I need to create a > bootable floppy and then boot of this to start the install. The > documentation (http://debian.org/releases/stable/alpha/ch04s02.html.en) > says that the image for this floppy is dependant on the specific > Alpha, which I believe for the XL 300 is xlt, and can be found in the > following location: > <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/disks-alpha/current/MILO/> > There doesn't seem to be any MILO directory, not even a disks-alpha > directory. Where can I find these disk images? > Am I on the right track with this? Does anyone know of some simple > step by step instructions for installing on Alpha? Sorry, this pointer to MILO isn't supposed to be there; MILO hasn't been supported for at least three releases now, because it's based on an ancient Linux kernel that can no longer be built from source. And it looks like I have a fix for that part of the manual that never got committed; I'll take care of that ASAP. :/ According to the table at <http://debian.org/releases/stable/alpha/ch05s01.html.en>, the xl and xlt systems don't support SRM, which means you can *only* boot Linux on them using MILO. The only remaining site I know of for downloading MILO is <http://milo.core-systems.de/>; but once you get the MILO images, you're still pretty much on your own for getting Debian installed using it, since there's no support for this in the installer. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
