Booting Alpha from Floppy??

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:12:46AM -0700, John Weez wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to boot my Alpha 164LX running FreeBSD 5.1 from floppy instead 
> of SCSI drive. Is this possible?

5.1 will be the last version which supports installing from floppy.
Just booting is possible, but I won't recomend it, because floppies
are way to small.

>   The SCSI drive in my Alpha is VERY LOUD  and other scsi drives i have 
> tried are loud too. So, I was thinking of  getting an IDE card and 
> hooking some IDE drives to it. I did not want to use the internal IDE 
> connection of the Alpha 164LX because I heard it is very slow.

Some SCSI controllers and the onboard IDE controllers are at least
bootable - additional ide controllers are not.
You should try the onboard controller and if you think it's to slow for
your usage then you should use a modern card and hook up a small
ide/scsi drive or a compact flash just for booting.

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