I'm strugeling for 4 weeks now.. make my day :)

[Bas Keur]

Ok , a very nice guy mr X gave my an Digital DEC 3000 600 175Mhz 64mb
(My first very own 100% unix machiene whoohoo)
I even have the licences from oracle 7 and some other stuff the OS is OSF/1
v3.0
( What was a cool thing 1st showed me you REALY need to use these things
with a
so called PAM tool... ok .. hmz no prob. lets look at the man pages,,, `not
found`
Fact i need to study more Digital ,no problem but in the meanwhile it seems
that the DEC 3000
is like the worst (!pick) when wanting to install Linux ... ( Everybody
started vague from here)
Works ,wont ,well a little ,no way... HELP :)
I mounted a SCSI ZIP on it .....

OpenBSD booting Kernel 1 image <sqiunk crash>
OpenBSD booting Kernel 2 image <sqiunk crash>
OpenBSD snapshot booting Kernel 1 image <sqiunk crash>
OpenBSD snapshot booting Kernel 2 image <sqiunk crash>
Redhat 7.1 Alpha boot<sqiunk crash>
NetBSD 5.1 booting yes yes < going to serial now>

WRAHH i have all except those DEC cables.

Just point the way to go PLEASE :)

Bas

[Dennis Grevenstein]

Bas Keur wrote:
>
> Fact i need to study more Digital ,no problem but in the meanwhile it seems
> that the DEC 3000
> is like the worst (!pick) when wanting to install Linux ... ( Everybody
> started vague from here)
> Works ,wont ,well a little ,no way... HELP :)

Linux won't run on these machines right now.
NetBSD has some limited support, but I am not a BSD expert.
OSF1 aka DEC Unix aka Tru64 will run up to release 5.1. This
box will also run OpenVMS and it's probably used best with VMS.

> NetBSD 5.1 booting yes yes < going to serial now>
>
> WRAHH i have all except those DEC cables.

Attach a terminal to the serial port. I am not famliliar
with the 3000/600, so I don't know if you need a standard
null modem cable or a special MMJ cable.

HTH
Dennis

--
How to understand political speeches?
- pick a phrase, X
- invert X to get not-X
- if not-X is rubbish, then X is content-free.

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

Dennis Grevenstein <den...@pcde.inka.de> wrote:

[DEC3000]

> Linux won't run on these machines right now.
> NetBSD has some limited support, but I am not a BSD expert.

See http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax

--
Emmanuel Dreyfus
ma...@netbsd.org

[Dennis Grevenstein]

Martin Piskernig wrote:
>
> The DEC3000 has no MIPS architecture.
> But it runs the alpha port fine on one of my machines here.

Do they have a reasonably working X Server already?

Dennis