20 Jun
2003
20 Jun
'03
1:04 p.m.
No, Its Not because it has those long flimsy skinny legs!
Really I brought my Flamingo DEC 3000 Model 500 Home. Set it in the
basement and the thing won't boot. It had had DEC UNIX on it ....I
had rescued it from from my former employer- it wasn't a PC so they
could find any takers...
Now the Panel cycles up and goes through a series of numbers Gets
to #63 and retries 5 more times and then posts a couple of numbers
in the 70's like 72... 74.... and then stops with DD lit in the
status indicators.. It does all this without bringing up the console.
?? Any help out there???. I dont have the distribution media, or
tape media for back- ups, for this machine If I could force a boot
off CD?
I have one CD which is an alpha version of linux called Potato?
Any thoughts? I am in central Ohio.
20 Jun
20 Jun
5 p.m.
--- ".." <TRUTHANL(a)columbus.rr.com> wrote:
...Flamingo DEC 3000 Model 500 Home...won't boot.
It had had DEC
UNIX on it
OK. I *think* Ultrix was the only OS commercially available (not sure
about the later product named "Digital Unix" that was formerly OSF/1)
....I had rescued it from from my former
employer- it wasn't a
PC so they could find any takers...
No surprise there. I do know a few people where you work, but I think
if they brought one of those home, it would have sown domestic discord.
Now the Panel cycles up and goes through a series of numbers...
I don't know DEC 3000 specifics, but you might find some helpful info
in the install pages for either NetBSD or OpenBSD.
I don't have the distribution media, or tape media
for back- ups,
for this machine If I could force a boot off CD?
It should either boot off of CD or at least the network
I have one CD which is an alpha version of linux
called Potato?
I am familiar with Debian "Potato"... AFAIK, your box has a MIPS CPU,
not Alpha.
Any thoughts? I am in central Ohio.
I'm just around the corner (working at another company in Metro Place,
H&R Block, doing VMS), but I could always try to come over some night
and puzzle over things with you.
-ethan
5:38 p.m.
...Flamingo
DEC 3000 Model 500 Home...won't boot. It had had DEC
UNIX on it
OK. I *think* Ultrix was the only OS commercially available (not sure
about the later product named "Digital Unix" that was formerly OSF/1) I am familiar with Debian "Potato"... AFAIK,
your box has a MIPS CPU,
not Alpha.
The DEC 3000 Model 500 has an Alpha 21064A, not a MIPS.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
9:47 p.m.
...Flamingo
DEC 3000 Model 500 Home...won't boot. It had had DEC
UNIX on it
OK. I *think* Ultrix was the only OS commercially available (not
sure
about the later product named "Digital Unix" that was formerly OSF/1) AFAIK, your box has a MIPS CPU, not Alpha.
You must be thinking of a DECstation. That's an entirely different beast.
21 Jun
21 Jun
5:11 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
One thing to check is that you're using the right console line -
check/togle S3 on the back. which goes between serial and video console.
If you're using a serial console, make sure it's connected to the MMJ and
wired properly. I thought I couldn't get my machine working until I
realized that I had RX+/RX- and TX+/TX- reversed on the cable I made.
Pat
--
Purdue University ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/
--- ".." <TRUTHANL(a)columbus.rr.com>
wrote:
Umm, the DEC 3000s were Alphas, not MIPS (not a DECstation). So, you can
run Linux, Net/OpenBSD (FreeBSD?), Digital Unix/Tru64, and VMS on them.
I've got my 3000/600 at work running VMS right now...
...Flamingo DEC 3000 Model 500 Home...won't
boot. It had had DEC
UNIX on it
OK. I *think* Ultrix was the only OS commercially available (not sure
about the later product named "Digital Unix" that was formerly OSF/1) Any thoughts?
I am in central Ohio.
I'm just around the corner (working at another company in Metro Place,
H&R Block, doing VMS), but I could always try to come over some night
and puzzle over things with you. 
12:34 a.m.
On 2003.06.21 00:00 .. wrote:
Really I brought my Flamingo DEC 3000 Model 500
Home.
[...]
Now the Panel cycles up and goes through a
series of numbers
[...]
and then stops with DD lit in the status
indicators.
I have a DEC 3000-600 with the same problem. It run well up to the day
when I upgraded the RAM from 128 MB ot 192 MB. Power up, some numbers
flickering on the LEDs on the back and it stops at 0xDD. I reversed my
modifications but still 0xDD. :-(((
Maybe you should carefully reseat everything on the RAM boards. Note
that a RAM bank consists out of 8 SIMMs.
I dont have the distribution media, or tape
media for
back- ups, for this machine If I could force a boot off CD?
You can get a hobbyist
license and distribution media for OpenVMS (free)
or Tru64 UNIX ($99) from DEC^WCompaq^WHP. But AFAIK the latest Tru64
version doesn't support the DEC 3000 any more.
I have one CD which is an alpha version of linux
called Potato?
Linux does not run on the old Turbochannel Alphas. But NetBSD does
very
well if you want a free Unix. There is a link to a ftp site on the port
Alpha page with various docs on Alpha CPUs and machines.
http://www.netbsd.org/
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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