On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:30:55AM +0100, mikaeld@online.no wrote:

> I am trying to install NetBSD on an old Alphaserver 1000 4/233.
> This is the mikasa, right ?

That is a Mikasa yes.

> NetBSD on an Alphaserver 1000A installed OK. It seems this machine does
> not have an integrated grahics adapter on the motherboard. The machine
> was equipped with an S3 Trio 64+ PCI card.

A Noritake. Has a lot more PCI slots then the 1000 has.

> So : is it possible to install NetBSD on the AS 1000 with another
> graphics card (PCI) at all ? If so, must the onboard adapter be disabled
> properly first (as opposed to the machine doing that automatically) ?
> Unfortunately we don't have any documentation on the SRM commands, and
> none of the links on the web I have found helps. There is an exe-fil on
> the Compaq-site which is supposed to expand to a sevice manual. But the
> exe-file will not execute, so there...

I'll try to dig up the AS1000 manual from one of my CDs. Stay tuned.

W/

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