[rescue] Alpha Server 2000 4/200 & NetBSD

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Wed Mar 6 20:14:06 CST 2002


> I've been thinking of giving NetBSD a try on it, but before I go to the
> hassle of downloading NetBSD, can anyone tell me if NetBSD runs ok on an
> AlphaServer 2000 4/200 with only 64mb of RAM. (from what I can see this
> model Alpha is not listed on the NetBSD Alpha site as a working system)
>
No.
The 2000,2100 and 2100A machines are unsupported.  There are machines of this 
class running NetBSD, but I think they blow up often, and anyway, stock 
NetBSD will not install on them.  (I know this, because I just spent 2 
evenings trying...)

I'm running FreeBSD on mine (4/233x2, 128M)

George



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