Re: Trouble building

Jay Estabrook - Alpha Migration Tools - LINUX Project (jestabro@brillig.amt.tay1.dec.com)
Wed, 08 Nov 95 17:17:41 -0500


>
> Hi,
>
> I'm still trying to boot linux on a #$%&/ Multia, and grateful for any
> help I get... also, any news on BLADE-3.0? I looked in on
> gatekeeper, and there was a bunch of disks, however not yet a boot
> disk for Multia with TGA, it seems.

OK, try gatekeeper:pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Miniloader/images/udb/milo.tga.arc

This is the MILO image for MULTIA as loaded by "linload.exe" via ARC, off of
a FAT floppy.

NOTE: "UDB" stands for Universal Desktop Box, which is simply a re-labelled
MULTIA-for-LINUX (as opposed to simply "MULTIA" which I guess has some
connotations of NT).

NOTE: linux 1.3.38 has support for TGA console!

Also, for a limited time *only*, try (should be there in the next 12 hours
from now: USA 17:00 EST):

gatekeeper:pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/X11/multia-vmlinux-1.3.37.gz

This is my latest 1.3.37-based MULTIA kernel, has actually more patches than
the 1.3.38 sources. NO, IT IS *NOT* AN XSERVER FOR THE TGA!!!!!

As for BLADE-0.3: as you noticed, it is appearing in incremental amounts; the
full distribution looks like being completed by end of next week (X *is* huge).

--Jay++

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