Re: Sync on Linux/Alpha
  By: Trash80 to Sam Alexander on Sat May 12 2007 12:00 pm

 >   Re: Sync on Linux/Alpha
 >   By: Sam Alexander to All on Fri May 11 2007 14:25:00
 > 
 >  > Also with Sync aside, has anyone ran Linux on an Alpha?  This server used
 >  > to run Red Hat 7.2 (and still has it loaded on it I guess), but I'd like 
 >  > install something abit newer.  Being an Ubuntu fan, I'd like to stick wit
 >  > Debian, which Ubuntu is based on.
 > 
 > I had a Alphaserver 1200.  The problem I had was linux support for the DAC96
 > (hope I'm remembering that model # right) RAID controller it had.  Redhat 7.
 > kernel image had support for the card out of the box but was old.  Debian wa
 > newer but didn't support the card. I started out using the Redhat kernel on 
 > Debian distro.  It was a nasting kludge but it worked.  Later I ended up
 > finding 3rd party linux drivers for the controller and making a custom kerne
 > in Debian.
 > 
 > In terms of a distro today that still supports DEC Alphas and is modern, Deb
 > is probably it.  On the plus side Debian is an excellent distro, as you alre
 > know.
 > 
 > I miss my Alpha.  Despite being older hardware it sure was an excellent web
 > server platform.

Hi Doug,

Debian 4 has a version for Alpha, as does CentOS (4.4 I think), which is a 
varient of Red Hat (I think).  I'll probably try either of these, and 
hopefully one will have drivers for these 10 year old systems.  I know when 
we installed Red Hat 7.2 we didn't need any third party drivers, so 
hopefully we'll get lucky.  The only catcher with RH7.2 was it didn't 
support the video, so everything was done via a terminal connected via 
serial port, which worked okay.

Sam


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