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From: Jean Mehat <jm@ai.univ-paris8.fr>
Subject: dead things
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:29:04 +0200 (CEST)
About alef on sources :
> This kind of reminds me of porting Plan 9 to dead things...
Speaking of dead things, I got a few Dec Alpha Personal Workstation
from around 1997-1998, moribound but still alive.
Until now, I succeeded in loading a kernel,running factotum which asks
for a user name (but not for a password). Apparently connectil fails
to establish a connnection between the booting terminal and the
auth/file server.
I imagined that the auth/file server was ok, since drawterm succeed
(from a SunOs machine).
(The ethernet card is recognized as announced by a line printed by the kernel)
Any suggestion ? Anyone (still) using alphapc ?
jm