Re: DecStation 4000 info wanted

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:35:05 -0500 (EST)


Hello Joel , Have they fianlly gotten the graphics engines
working for decstations ? Last time I played with BSD on
decstations there was -no- graphics capacities available .
I hope that has changed . Tia , JimL

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> having played with some dec stations in the past... I'd recomend trying
> netbsd...
>
> joelja
>
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Ian Molton wrote:
>
> > Hi there...
> >
> > Im wondering... does anyone have information on the care and feeding of
> > Decstation4000s ?
> >
> > I have a DecStation 4000 (mips based, IIRC), which I would LOVE to run
> > Linux on.
> >
> > It has no internal OS AFAICT, although it has a SCSI HDD, and some sort of
> > bootloader.
> >
> > It used to boot over a network.
> >
> > what do I need to do to make it boot linux?
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