No, it currently is unsupported; it's an EISA/PCI motherboard unlike the
current set of supported platforms (EISA (JENSEN) or ISA/PCI). How *much*
different is a theoretical exercise at the moment; given access to such a box,
one *could* try various MILO flavors, hoping that the compatibility is high
with at least one. The APECS-based ones are closest, you could try AVANTI,
CABRIO, EB64+, in that order. If it *ever* gets to MILO after switching to
PALcode, its close... :-)
BTW, you'll need to do this from ARC console for best chance.
That way, you could base LINUX in a partition on the NT disk.
Or, you could try the aboot path, eschewing MILO for SRM. Choose kernels
as well from the APECS set as above. For this, LINUX needs its own disk,
*not* just a partition on the OSF disk, as LINUX and OSF boot in a similar
way, and are not, I believe, able to co-reside (NET, please correct me... :-).
Yes, you *could* always boot LINUX via floppy, but that gets old real fast...
>
> If it is, then read the rest, if not, oh well...
>
> Linux won't be the only OS on that machine. Its purpose is testing only and
> we are planning to have OSF/1 (or whatever they call it today) that we have
> there now, NT, and linux, and hopefully there is a way to have them all.
> So, I guess I don't want milo, but aboot (from the web pages). So, now I
> got sources for aboot-0.31. Where do I compile them? Linux/i86, OSF/Alpha?
> Or do I first install linux and then aboot and meanwhile boot from a floppy?
> I don't want to mess up what's installed right now, I just have an empty
> partition on DecServer that I'll be using, so any input would be great.
> Any other info as far as my particular setup would be nice, too.
Others will have to fill in the answers for the above, as I've never tried
to make the OS's co-reside.
Good luck!
--Jay++
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