How to get to console?

2003-10-29 Thread Keith Grider
Ok, I did it now. I edited the aboot.conf and now it will not boot. How do I get to the aboot console? KeithG

Re: Debian Install Compaq Alpha XP1000

2003-09-29 Thread Keith Grider
Dead Scsi Drive? Mine did this until I removed teh culprit drive. Try these links for more help... http://www.tux.org/~joel/xp1000.html http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/xpseries/xp1000/index.html Get the PDF of the SRM console commands if you do not have it yet. KeithG M

Re: Debian Alpha Sarge ISO's

2003-06-22 Thread Keith Grider
Rob Thyssen wrote: On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 2:33 am, Keith Grider wrote: Woody has 2.4.18. It loads with 2.2.x, but includes 2.4.18 with the dist and it is dpkg upgradeable. Why? I do not know, but there it is. KeithG At the risk of exposing my incompetence, may I ask what I should type at the

Re: Debian Alpha Sarge ISO's

2003-06-21 Thread Keith Grider
Woody has 2.4.18. It loads with 2.2.x, but includes 2.4.18 with the dist and it is dpkg upgradeable. Why? I do not know, but there it is. KeithG Rob Thyssen wrote: Can anyone point me in the right direction for obtaining an ISO for Debian Alpha that includes a 2.4 (or newer) kernel. Thank you a

Re: AS255, X not running

2003-06-19 Thread Keith Grider
Thanks, Nick, Worked like a charm. KDM up and running as is X now. Much easier... KeithG From: Nick Ntarmos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi there. On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:38:19PM -0400, Keith Gride

Re: AS255, X not running

2003-06-18 Thread Keith Grider
Same here, kinda. I have woody running on an XP1000. X bombs out when I type 'startx' or 'xinit', but I can type xf86cfg, get a window and load a wm and run programs, etc. When I save the cfg file and try to fire it up again, it complains about a missing something or other... (WW) Warning, coul

Isa Modems...

2003-06-05 Thread Keith Grider
Wow, this has been interesting and a bit difficult. I am finally 'up' and have webmin and almost X running. I have installed the appropriate modules to get the sound system working and ethernet system. The last frontier is to get a modem running. I put an isa 56k generic real modem (not a winmo

Re: SRM booting issue was: Re: xp1000 problems with upgrade to 2.4.18-generic

2003-06-04 Thread Keith Grider
ast one, I hope it works :) Ionut On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:32:55PM -0400, Keith Grider wrote: That is great, thanks. I am not yet familiar with initrd. How do I set it to immediately boot to this, though. Is there a way, in SRM, to force a direct boot instead of doing it interactively by typing &#x

Re: SRM booting issue was: Re: xp1000 problems with upgrade to 2.4.18-generic

2003-06-04 Thread Keith Grider
That is great, thanks. I am not yet familiar with initrd. How do I set it to immediately boot to this, though. Is there a way, in SRM, to force a direct boot instead of doing it interactively by typing '0' at the aboot prompt? KeithG Jens Kruse wrote: Hi Keith, Keith Grider wrot

SRM booting issue was: Re: xp1000 problems with upgrade to 2.4.18-generic

2003-06-04 Thread Keith Grider
re xserver-xfree86" -Josiah On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Keith Grider wrote:

xp1000 problems with upgrade to 2.4.18-generic

2003-06-03 Thread Keith Grider
Hello group, I was able to get woody running on my xp1000. It was pretty painless, actually. I have been used to RedHat and Suse on intel, so this is my first exposure to Debian and SRM/Alpha. The installation went pretty well except for X, more about that later. I used APT to upgrade to the 2.