DEC ALPHA

Robert Dege rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Sat Feb 16 16:29:03 EST 2002


> Can this work? How do I make it possible for Linux to see and use all these
> hard disk drives?

So long as the both SCSI chains are properly terminated (external &
internal), and none of your externals HD's have the auto termination
jumper set, you shouldn't see any access problems.

Your 2 new best friends (fdisk, and fstab) will be all you need if you
already installed the OS.  If not, then RedHat's GUI should take acare of
it.... so long as it can find all the devices.

> Where should I put the Boot, Root and Swap partitions? Which drive (s)?
> Is it possible to make Linux make these drives allowable ie: all useable by
> the OS to use for Programs & Storage? How do I set up these partitions with
> scsi 0 sda in the desktop being only 528mb? How do I skip this drive but
> would still be able to use it if I need to? Or in what other way can it be
> used in the installation? ie:  MILO?  And for milo? how do you set it up to
> autoboot the system after the the install is done. If I where to use the
> 528mb drive for this, to set MILO on it permanently to point to the boot
> partition.

Boot & Root should be on the internal drive, since you can "technically"
get to a bootable state without swap or other sub-directories.  Redhat's
largest directory is /usr.  Spreading usr onto another drive (or 2
depending on the size of usr).  Next would be /home, since your user
account will populate that directory.


> I have been tolled that the older X Server version 3.3.6 is used to get this
> configuration working (running RedHat 7.1 on a DEC Multia MultiClient Desktop)
> The info I got was that the XFree-TGA file is included with RedHat 7.1 for
> Alpha. To get this working I would have to install
> XFree86-TGA-3.3.6-38.alpha.rpm, and make sure that the symbolic link in
> /ect/X11 for X points to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_TGA, instead of
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86, and use XF86Config rather than XFConfig-4
>
> Only one problem I don't know how to do this!!! I'm rather (Newbie) new to
> Linux and new to this kind of hardware. So if you can spare the time to offer
> some help it would be really appreciated.

Something to know about Xfree86 is that it's backward compatible.  in
/etc/X11, there is a softlink X taht points to the desired Video Driver.
If X -> XFree86, then use a using XFree86 4.0 driver.  If X points to
anything else, then you are using a 3.3.6 driver.  XF6Config is read by
XWindows, when the X soft link points to a 3.3.6 driver.  XF86Config-4 is
read when X points to the XFree86 driver (4.x)

So basically, you answered your own question.

1# install the TGA rpm
2# Go into /etc/X11
3# Remove X softlink that points to XFree86 & repoint it to the TGA driver
4# Modify the XF86Config file.
5# Try startx & see what happens.


Dege

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