Re: almost forgot
At 10:29 AM 2/04/03, Bob Schmidt sent this up the stick: Hi Again, Can anyone tell me where I can find information on the latest bios versions, and if they can be installed without an operating system on the computer. I tried going into alphabios from the srm console and it errored out. My machine is a 433au. You don't need to use AlphaBIOS ... just keep SRM, much better for Linux :) The updates are available at ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/readmes/digitalpw.html Cheers, Rob -- Hey, I have an idea! Let's all go spray paint some cars in Singapore! This is random quote 562 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5
Re: newbie
Have you changed the type to Linux swap for the swap partition ? Could you post the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda ? Ionut On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:59:13PM -0800, Bob Schmidt wrote: I did try that, but when I go to install debian it tells me that I have no swap partition, etc. So it doesn't see any partitions to install itself on. Bob - Original Message - From: Richard Fillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:33 PM Subject: Re: newbie The osf/bsd labels are a tad confusing at first. It took me the better part of a day to figure it out. I'm not entirely sure which partitioning tool you're being sent to, but i suggest you hit alt+f2 and use fdisk. fdisk /dev/hda will probably be what you'll have to type. Now if you hit m for help, you should see b edit bsd disklabel. Thats what you're looking for. You dont want partitions on the disk, you want BSD disklabels. They are slightly different. Here's a tip for ya...save yourself a bit of trouble, and start the first labal a a few megs from the start. I'm guessing you'll be using aboot to boot the box, it needs a bit of room at the start of the disk. That'll give it the room it needs. Richard Fillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:21:52PM -0800, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi, Just got my 433au today in the mail. I am trying to install debian 3.0r1 on it. Now I have used linux before, but this is all new to me here. It tells me that I have to have an (I think) an osf/bsd boot label, then it sends me to the disk partioning program. I type the letter b like it tells me to, then type r to go to the regular disk setup. I then try to add a swap partion, etc. and it boots me back to the original disk partion screen. Help, I'm desperate, how do you set up the hard drive (ide, not scsi) to install debian. I looked at the install directions and it basically tells you the same thing the install program does. Thanks, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux User #244479 * * In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you *can do anything the computer is able to do.
Re: newbie
Bob Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Just got my 433au today in the mail. I am trying to install debian 3.0r1 on it. Now I have used linux before, but this is all new to me here. It tells me that I have to have an (I think) an osf/bsd boot label, then it sends me to the disk partioning program. I type the letter b like it tells me to, then type r to go to the regular disk setup. What made you think you need to do that? Stay in the disklabel menu, and everything should work. -- Falk
OT:Problem compiling tetex: missing xdvi
(sent also to tetex list) Framework: Alpha workstation with linux debian 3 (woody) gnome 1.4 (Debian tetex stable package worked smoothly). Heavily relying on (pdf-)latex and context in my work I decided to move to the complete, most updated version of tetex (2.0.2) downloading the tarballs from CTAN Dante and then compiling the sources myself, accurately following the instruction in the INSTALL file. the ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/texmf command log didn't seem to show any error. Then make world has been working smoothly till the very end and no Error: strings has popped up in the log. BUT, when I've checked the /usr/share/texmf/bin/alphaev5-unknown-linux-gnu with ls | wc -l I've found 137 file instead of the indicated 145 and files like xdvi ,oxdvi, pdflatex etc were missing. This prevents texconfig to work! Please help Ciao Vittorio - Invia un sms gratis! http://freesms.supereva.it/index.php messaggio inviato con Freemail by www.superEva.it -
CUPS and Epson Stylus Color Lpt1
Hi, I tried to use my Epson stylus color with CUPS on my pws500au. And I did not manage to make it works. I set up the printer under CUPS (using the CUPS's web tools) and tried to print a test page. The /var/log/cups/error.log file learn me that an error occurs when CUPS send data to the Epson backend (something like a wrong argument, i think). Has anybody managed to get it works ? I am running Debian woody 3.0r0. Thanks for your help, David
boot stops at...
On an XP1000, with 2.2.20 Generic or 2.4.20 Generic kernel using command boot from SRM or aboot: boot dkb0 -fi 2/vmlinuz-2.4.20 -fl root=/dev/sda2 boot stops at: PCI:probing PCI hardware. SMC37c669 found @0x3f0 ..hangs here. The same scsi drive boots correctly on 164LX and DS10 boxes. Also SMP kernel on this drive boots correctly on UP2000+(gcc-3.2) I tried passing kernel boot arguments: 'noisapnp' 'isapnp=skip_pci_scan' 'pci=nobios' these do not help, anyone know whats up? NetBSD disk boots fine so hardware is not a problem. -Mel
DEC PWS 600au 1.5GB RAM on E-Bay
Hello All I apologize if this post is inappropriate, but would like to give Alpha fans a shot at my PWS. It is in good working order with a FULL COMPLIMENT OF 1.5GB RAM... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1486item=3410641248; rd=1 Also up for grabs is a 560GB RAID-5 FileServer with 1GB DDR Copper Gigabit... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1486item=3410641248; rd=1 Thanks Edwin
RE: DEC PWS 600au 1.5GB RAM on E-Bay
Sorry Folks The RAID-5 Server is at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1484item=3410719034 and the DEC Alpha PWS 600au is at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1486item=3410641248 Thanks Steffan =; Regards Edwin -Original Message- From: Staffan Thomen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:52 PM To: Edwin Campbell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DEC PWS 600au 1.5GB RAM on E-Bay On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:43:08 -0800 Edwin Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1486item=3410641248; rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1486item=3410641248; rd=1 Did you notice that both those urls are the same? -- Staffan Thomén GPG key: 1024D/7C7E2EF8 Fingerprint: ADB3 455F 10D5 86D1 78D6 048D 11BB D66E 7C7E 2EF8
