Re: Hows Alphadebian doing?
With regards to your message at 12:36 PM 01-04-99 +0100, Paul Slootman.
Where you stated:
>On Sat 02 Jan 1999, Gerhard Poul wrote:
>>
>> But what's really important: we need a debian-cd that is able to create
>> bootable alpha CD's !!
>
>The problem is that there is no standard for bootable cdroms on Alpha
>systems like there is for Intel systems. E.g. the NT stuff will only
>work on systems that have an ARC bios, and even then maybe only on
>specific versions. Additionally, it seems that the specs for that is
>not openly available...
Nonsense. You have it almost exactly backwards.
Booting from CDROM is possible on any alpha running SRM, and on most
running ARC or AlphaBIOS. How do you think Digital UNIX is installed? With
a floppy?
The only OS you need a floppy for is Linux.
>> Not so important, but how is the "Install Windows NT" working in the
BIOS ??
>
>As I said, I believe most Alpha's don't have that option in their bios.
All do. Yes, I said _ALL_ with ARC, ARCS, or AlphaBIOS.
>> But if not I'm thinking of a little command line for MILO which boots from
>> CD-ROM...
>
>But then you still need a floppy to start milo, and that is specific to
>the hardware, and the command line for milo is probably also dependent
>on the hardware. All in all not an easy task. But hey, feel free to take
>a shot at it, I'm sure there are plenty of people who will help with
>testing :-)
>
>
>Paul Slootman
A boot floppy is not a curse, just for install purposes, but to say it is
needed is misleading..
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