Alpha PB51C-AA

[weogarth]

Apologies if this is the wrong forum, but it's the best I could find.

I have an old Alpha I'm trying to get going. My Unix/Linux knowledge is pretty rusty, part of the reason I'm doing this project.

I have RedHat's 7.2 for Alpha, 4 CDs plus the Docs CD but no floppies with them. I have a very basic boot going on my Alpha but can't do much with it and it's been so long since this thing has been up, I don't know what caused it's current low-level OS state.

I don't believe I have dd to make the floppy images from the first CD and I can't mount the CDs to copy out the files as described in the README.

If there's any way I can get a set of self-extracting images to make the boot floppies that I could proceed but wasn't able to find any such thing.

Alternately, a boot disk that can give me mount, dd and other basic commands should let me move create my own floppies to proceed.

The other option, which I don't think is possible, is to find instructions on how to make this particular machine boot from a CD.

Any help is greatly appreciated, hopefully there's someone out there who knows more than I on this machine.

Regards

Gary Whitten

 

[azhrei]

HI, yes you can get it to boot from cd!! At the >>> prompt type in show device, look for the cd name it may be dqa0, then at >>> b dqa0: and as long as the cd is bootable you should be allset

Paul