Getting Debian installed on a Digital Alpha Workstation
Author: Martin List-Petersen - martin at list-petersen dot dk
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Version: 0.1
Created: October 11th, 2004
Last updated: October 13th, 2004
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Introduction
I recently traded myself to a Digital Personal Workstation 433a, which even though it seems a bit outdated, still is a quite powerful machine. I've allways been interested in Alpha CPU based systems, installed a few, but only bought myself a motherboard with CPU (PC164) last year to realise, that i couldn't get my hands on 72pin EEC memory modules (yep, EDOs and i haven't given up finding some yet).Anyhow, on my last trip to Denmark a Alpha Personal Workstation, that had crossed my path, was dumped in my car and brought back to Ireland. Of course it's supposed to run Linux.
Installing Linux, especially on the "a" series of the PWS is a bit tricky. The PWS a-series was designed for Windows NT and the early beta's of Windows 2000 for Alpha. But with a little research all the bits and pieces can be found. I just thought it might be nice to collect them in one spot, which I will do here.
Content
- PC164 Alpha based (to come)
- Digital Personal Workstation 433a (Miata)
- Links
History
- 0.2 (20041013) - finished section on SRM.
- 0.1 (20041011) - initial document.
