6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:58:45AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote..
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:13:46AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:36:06PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote..
> > 
> > > What are other folks doing with their 2100As these days?
> > 
> > Scrap them?  I was offered one recently but politely declined :)
> 
> Ack, not what I was expecting :-)

Well, I have limited space at home.  3 Alphas now, and that is enough.

> OpenVMS isn't of interest to me, I have vaxen for that ;-)

I have a mVAXII, running Ultrix-11 ;)

> I've also looked at the $99 Tru64 "non-commerical" license. But it's
> only of mild interest -- tying this box into my FreeBSD 6/7 network
> would have made the hardware differences trasparent.
> 
> Does 4.x boot on the 2100A? Reading the archives I came a cross a few
> references to that.

It is a long time ago I tried it, our 2100A has gone away years ago.  So
you would need to find someone who has recently tried one.

But I am still puzzled the 2100A did not even attempt to boot.  Have you
verified the CDR on another Alpha?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org