Can someone on the port-alpha mailing list help out here?  I sent Takashi 
a copy of Ross's bootable NetBSD 1.4/Alpha CD and he's trying to get it 
up and running.  My systems are Mac68k, MacPPC and i386 so I'm not much 
help to him with his Alpha questions.

thanks,
-bob

Takashi Ishihara  (ishihara@cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote:

>> 
>> Anyway, when Ross gets the bootable 1.4.1 CD here I'll send you a copy.
>> 
>Hi Bob,
>I got a problem. It seems impossible to install NetBSD on Multia according
>to http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#nt-firmware.
>Well, this is not exactly true since Multias has OSF/1 and OpenVMS
>firmwares, but OSF/1 did not work well (my poor monitor could not display
>properly). I have not tried OpenVMS yet, but I expect the same result
>(video/screen problem). I tried MILO, which did not work as netbsd faq says.
>So... I guess I do not need Ross' ElTrito 1.4.1 CD-ROM. (it's not cd-rom
>bootable anyways). 
>
>I really appreciate if you give me some Multia specific installation method.
>I don't want to give up quickly, but I do not want to waste my invest at the
>same time; i.e. just install Debian. ...
>
>Hey, wait, i just visited 
>http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html
>I guess I got some idea. Ok, I will read the doc all over again and let you
>know the outcome. In any case, if you give me a hint, I'm using Multia +
>internal scsi harddisk + scsi cdrom (just for installation). I made a dos
>partition (8MB) on harddisk and put milo and cdhdtape, which did not help
>to boot the system (and the firmware is not capable of cdrom boot). I really
>appreciate if you give me any suggestion instead of sending another cdrom.
>Sorry for too much ranting.