The original question was:
> Dear managers:
>
> Did anybody ever succeeded install Digital Unix on Alpha XL?
> If yes, how you did it?
>
> Leonid Shperling
> leonid_shperling_at_icomverse.com
> * 972-3-6452041
Thanks to Dr. Tom Blinn, the only received answer was his, and as expected
it was immediate, clear and exhaustive. It is below.
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Correct me if I am mistaken, but is not the "Alpha XL" the system that was
sold ONLY as a Windows NT PC? If it's the box I think it is (and I do have
a pretty good memory), it has NO SRM CONSOLE. The SRM CONSOLE is a
mandatory
prerequisite for installing Digital UNIX. Further, no one ever created an
SRM
console for that box, and no one ever wrote Digital UNIX platform support
code
for the components on the mother board.
In other words, it's not supported, you can't even get it to boot the CD
that
has the kit, and even if you could get it to boot, it wouldn't install, and
even if you could get it to install, you could never purchase a valid
license
for the Digital UNIX software.
Sorry, but you are out of luck.
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn + UNIX Software Group + Compaq Computer Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/U20 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698
Technology Partnership Engineering Phone: (603) 884-0646
Internet: tpb_at_zk3.dec.com Digital's Easynet: alpha::tpb
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Leonid Shperling
leonid_shperling_at_icomverse.com
Received on Wed Jan 06 1999 - 16:03:34 NZDT