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in the installation description of FreeBSD i found, that there is
a port for Dec Alpha 3000.

Can anyone tell me, what hardware requirements are needed and
how i install FreeBSD if there is no floppy disk at this
Dec Alpha 3000?

:-) Thilo

Quote:> in the installation description of FreeBSD i found, that there is
> a port for Dec Alpha 3000.

> Can anyone tell me, what hardware requirements are needed and
> how i install FreeBSD if there is no floppy disk at this
> Dec Alpha 3000?

FreeBSD (and Linux, and Windows NT) only support PCI-bus Alphas.  The
3000 is a TurboChannel
model.  The operating systems you can use are:

OpenBSD
NetBSD
OpenVMS
Digital Unix (aka True64, aka OSF/1)
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On http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/alpha-osf-managers/pujulchy i found:

FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD will work, but they do not support any
TurboChannel expansion cards or the onboard graphics cards. You have to use
a serial/dumb-terminal console to use these operating systems.

So i ask for someone who has tried to installed FreeBSD 3.4 or 4.0 on a
DEC Alpha 3000

:-) Thilo

Quote:>On http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/alpha-osf-managers/pujulchy i found:
>FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD will work, but they do not support any
>TurboChannel expansion cards or the onboard graphics cards. You have to use

Quote:>a serial/dumb-terminal console to use these operating systems.
>So i ask for someone who has tried to installed FreeBSD 3.4 or 4.0 on a
>DEC Alpha 3000

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