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Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:22:39 -0500 (EST)


Tsunami is actually the chipset used in the DS20 (DP264), known
as the goldrush, and the XP1000, or monet.

There are images on the RH5.2 CD, but there are a little old I think and
you're better off with the images from alphalinux.org/gatekeep.dec.com

Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:

> Simon Shapiro wrote:
> >
> > Hi Y'll
> >
> > Any idea how to boot Liuux on a Compaq DS20? No matter how dirty!
> > Am being told this is a Monet type ``workstation'' (this sure ain't no
> > portable :-). My debian archives do not yeild anything bootable, but I
> > am eager to get a sourceful Unix on it.
>
> If you have RedHat 5.2, you should be able to boot it from the CD-ROM.
> I don't know for sure about the Monet, but I had a dual 21264 in my
> office on a test basis for a week or so, and it was called a Tsunami.
> It booted fine from the CD, although there's a lot of stuff to go
> through with disk formatting.
>
> Let me know if it gets that far and you need more info (have to use
> fdisk, Berkeley option, etc., etc.).