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It took quite a while to get everything figured out after the first few installs on my 233 mhz Multia, but I have a few pointers I could throw out there. The install itself is rather simple, and I had no problems doing ftp installs locally and getting everything up and running on rh 5.2. The only bizarre things I have to comment on are kernel configuration: -I have only gotten 2.0 and 2.2 kernels to compile correctly. 2.3 always crashes out on something simple, like fork.c, though that might be because I'm on rh 5.2 and not 6.0 (glibc differences and such). -Make sure you choose the right scsi device. It took a few tries to get the right scsi controller. I needed the ncr53c8xx with "normal io" option, whereas the ncr53c7xx/8xx choice just bombed. -Make sure you enable frame buffer devices in the console drivers section and select TGA device. Those are all hardware specific and will of course depend on your model. I've found that www.alphalinux.org is a great resource, with occasionally outdated howto's. Setting up milo was rather easy and directly out of the man pages. Off-topic: I do like the way the loader is built right into the bios/firmware. I rarely mess up lilo, but I thought this was quite a nice change. That's about all I can think of. If you run into any specific questions, I'd be happy to answer any that I can. Brian Conway dogbert at clue4all.net - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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