DEC Alpha a-series

[AlienSearcher]

Hallo,
ich überlege mir gerade, ob ich mir eine gebrauchte DEC Alpha (EV5 433MHz) kaufen soll, jedoch ist das laut Screenshots eine a-series. Soweit ich weis, ist die a-series auf WindowsNT ausgelegt. Kann ich da drauf trotzdem ein FreeBSD oder ein Debian GNU/Linux installieren? Kennt sich damit jemand aus?

Danke schomal

 

[Elessar]

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-alpha.html#AEN46

For a machine even to be considered for FreeBSD use please make sure it has the SRM console firmware installed. Or at least make sure that SRM console firmware is available for the particular machine type. If FreeBSD does not currently support your machine type, there is a good chance that this will change at some point in time, assuming SRM is available. All bets are off when SRM console firmware is not available.

Machines with the ARC or AlphaBIOS console firmware were intended for WindowsNT. Some have SRM console firmware available in the system ROMs which you only have to select (via an ARC or AlphaBIOS menu). In other cases you will have to re-flash the ROMs with SRM code. Check on http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware to see what is available for your particular system. In any case: no SRM means no FreeBSD (or NetBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64 Unix or OpenVMS for that matter). With the demise of WindowsNT/alpha a lot of former NT boxes are sold on the second hand market. They have little or no trade-in value when they are NT-only from the console firmware perspective. So, be suspicious if the price appears too good.

Und ob du Linux aus einem ARC/alphaBIOS booten kannst... frägst du am besten in einem Linuxforum! (Oder liest die Doku der Distribution (abwegiger gedanke, ich weiss)).