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From: Ben Huntsman <BHuntsman@mai...>
Subject: dead things
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:39:09 -0700

Very interesting that you ask, because I've been looking to start using my loaded AlphaServer 1000 as my main Plan 9 system.  Unfortunately, my terminal just broke.  So though I don't suppose you could call it a 'pc', it's still an Alpha, and theoretically should boot.  Anyone know if it's strictly necessary to load bootalphapc via ether, or couldn't it just be loaded from a disc, since SRM will boot from discs?  

>>> Jean Mehat<jm@ai.univ-paris8.fr> 5/27/2004 7:29:04 AM >>>

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