[CLUE-Tech] I give up

[Mike Staver]

Thank you, I tried looking for the doc on this list earlier because I
remember seeing it, but I was unable to find it.  I'll look a little
closer this time :) I'm not sure what the boot os is, but it says
Alphabios, and has prompts in the menus for installing NT/Windows 2000. 
I didn't realize I needed to *install* SRM, from the docs on the debian
pages I've found, they make it sound like all I had to do was dig around
until I found the srm console in the bios, which I've been trying do to
since early yesterday afternoon.  But, now that I know that I need to
install SRM, that makes more sense.  

Randy Arabie wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Mike Staver wrote:
> 
> > Alright, after trying for many hours to figure out how to boot this
> > alpha in SRM mode, can someone tell me how to do this?  If I don't need
> > the SRM console, how do I install linux?
> 
> What does it boot into when you turn it on?
> 
> When I initially got mine, it would boot into the NT version of the DEC
> firmware.  I had to install SRM (i.e. the Unix version of the DEC firmware).
> 
> Once that was installed, it was simply a matter of issuing the proper
> commands at the SRM prompt to get the machine to boot the installation cd.
> 
> AFAIK, you do need to have SRM installed to run any *NIX on the Alpha.  I
> installed NetBSD on mine.
> 
> During my installation/configuration on mine I grabbed a bunch of doco on
> SRM.  I dig for it if necessary.  There was some traffic on this list that
> should also have links to that doco, you should be able to locate it in the
> December archives.
> 
> HTH
> --
> Cheers!
> 
> Randy
> 
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