DEC ALPHA

[Ronald Maggio]

> 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 care of
> it.... so long as it can find all the devices.
>
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OK the GUI did not take care of this and I had to use fdisk to set BSD 
disklables. What should I name the partition type? The BSD disklable program 
uses a default partition type of (Unknown) I set the letter of each drive to 
(a) and it states in the installation guide "To provide the initial 
unallocated space, you will need to start the partitions at cylinder 2. If 
you do a workstation or server class installation" I'm installing a 
workstation class system.

What is (fstab)?

>
> 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.
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Which internal drive? The one in the desktop in only 528mb sda.
There are 4 drives in the tower the largest one is a 4.3gigs sdb. 
So where do you suggest I start, and in what order?


>
> > 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 that 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.
>
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Well I really don't know how to do that, but (think) I understand what you 
are saying, and when I get to that point all I can do is give it the good old 
college try and see if it all turns out!
If I run into problems I'll just post them here and there.

Thanks for your help and input!

Ron 

> Dege
>
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