Re: OK, how do I install it ?

Hi

Well mine is not a 1000 but a 3000. I am not sure what the differences are but I can talk you though what I did if you like...

Does yours have SRM (you can tell if its SRM because it has white letters on blue background and has IIRC a >>> prompt)?

I seem to remember you can change from the other to SRM through the options menu on the other system but its been a few years since I did that on mine and can't remember exactly where it was...

iIf you have the SRM prompt you literally need to plug in the command boot dka200 (or whatever the CD is on your machine - you can find this out by typing in show device at the prompt).

It should then bring you up with a screen which gives you as one of the options to load Kernal modules (you need to load a driver here for your NIC or you won't be able to FTP!

Then go into the install new system menu and select network, select FTp and plug in the IP of the mirror you are going to use (I suggest the ones Stefan recommended)

It wia lot of date into the RAM (takes ages!) and then it will take you through an installation process that is not too disimilar to something Gates would come up with only better obviously!

Its fairly straight forward and most of the default settings should get you up and running.

Now I sit back for everybody else who has more knowledge than me to shoot down everything I have suggested as being wrong!

i am fairly new to this caper myself!

John



  On Thu, 22 May 2003 11:08:05 -0500
"Stuart Powell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
> 
> I have a Digital Alphaserver 1000 4/200 sitting here in the shop that I
> would like to put SuSE 8.1 onto.  I was going to put 7.1 on it a few
> months ago, but never got around to it.
> 
> However, I come from an Intel background, and I'm having some trouble
> getting the thing to boot from the CD.  I went through the boot menu
> that comes up and added an entry for booting from the CD-Rom drive, but
> I don't think I got it right.  Does anyone have any hints about how I
> can get this venerable machine up and kicking ?  Or a pointer to a HOWTO
> that will lead me thorugh it ?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Stuart.
> 


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