Which of these alpha machines would be supported by gentoo?

strombrg

Hi.

The group I work in has 9 alpha's that we want to move off of Tru64 to something else that's POSIXy.

The models we want to switch are:

Model AlphaStation 200 4/233
Model AlphaStation 255/233
Model AlphaStation 255/300
Model COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz
Model COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000
Model Digital Personal WorkStation 433au

Is there anyone out there in gentoo-alpha-land, who knows which of these would be supported by gentoo-alpha? I wouldn't be surprised if no single invidual knows about all of these, so if you know one or more of them, I hope you won't hesitate to contribute the part you do know.

Just a quick note on where gentoo stands in this selection process: we're thinking primarily about gentoo and netbsd at this point.

Thanks!

griffypoo · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 16

I know for a fact that the last three machines that you listed will work wonderfully with Gentoo. I suspect that the others will also work as support for Linux on the Alpha is fairly mature at this point, but I don't have any of those machines to give you a first hand experience.

jeffd · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Mass

I agree. I can't see any reason why all of them wouldn't work. The only "gotcha" I can forsee is some of them might have graphics cards not supported on Linux. They all have SRM available, so that is goodness.

Jeff D

Kloeri · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 144

They're all supported but some of them only boots with the 2.4 kernel on the 2005.0 livecd.

jetcowbob · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 15

I have been having issues with the Professional Workstation XP1000.. It only boots with the 2.4 kernel on the 2005.0 livecd.. but it also hangs up at random times while im trying to install. I have had to start over numerous times. (Power down and come back up) If anyone can suggest anything for this, i woudl be grateful. It has the newest firmware from HP.