Hi
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
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
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.
> >Fro
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 15:36, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> You could try install Debian 3.0 and then upgrading from there, although
> you would have to point the installer at the debian archives to get the
> files it needs. It might work.
Thanks, I've found the woody images just got to find anoth
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 15:57, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Len is spot-on. See the following link:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/alpha/ch05s01.html.en
>
> It basically says you're stuck with the ARC console firmware and you'll
> have to use MILO to install an older release of Debian, say, "wo
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:36:58PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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 (...)
> >
> > Am I on the right track with this? Does anyone know of some simple
> >
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