AS200 (was Unidentified subject!)

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Alex Ponnath wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I have a AS200 / 4/233  and stand in front of a big problem..... i do not
> know how i can get this
> box to load linux redhat 5.1 for alpha .
> I have a 2 Gig HD installed in it and a SCSI CDROM and thats how fat i get,
> i get the > prompt
> and now i am stuck. The Docs talk about milo, SRA and stuff like that which
> is new to me
> since i come out the intel word, where you have a boot floppy and you are
> ready to go.
> 
> I hope you have 3 minutes of your time to point me in the right direction on
> how to get the system installed

Sure.  The first thing you'll want to do is read all the nice documentation
that folks have put together.  Here is a shopping list.  I'd recommend reading
each before starting with the installation.

   Alpha-HOWTO  (see http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux)
   AS200 Support Page (see http://www.toast.net/~strycher/AS200.html)
   RedHat-5.1 Users Manual and Alpha Addendum
   Alphastation Users Manual

I'll give you a hint now; if you decide to use the SRM console, make your
boot disk from the avanti-s.img image on the RedHat CD.  If you decide on
ARC, use the avanti.img image.

Good luck,
-bp
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