RE: Updated installation images 2019-01-20

"Skye" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.alpha
Message-ID <03bd01d5076b$c4538280$4cfa8780$@com>
Frank Scheiner [mailto:[email protected]] appears to have written:
> 
> On 5/10/19 21:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> On May 10, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Skye <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was able to boot from CDROM and the loading ran fine until it got
> to the
> >> hardware discovery phase.  It was unable to find the CD-ROM
> hardware. My
> >> AlphaStations all have the Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM player.
> 
> Good to hear that! Last time I tested Debian GNU/Linux Sid (not the
> installer!) on my older AlphaStations with EV4(5) they hang during 
> kernel boot. Looks like I should give them another try with the 
> current kernel and userland. Thanks for the encouraging information. 
> :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank

Cheers Frank!

Yes, it is encouraging.  Kudos to Adrian and team for all their work.

If anyone knows of a decent rescue disk for Alpha please let me know.  I have two workstations which require password recovery.

Skye
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