My bad.  Once I used the correct media installing went fairly
smoothly.  No problems with the serial consol so far.

Ivan Fetch writes:
 > Hi,
 >    You only sent this to me - I'm not sure if you meant to send it to the
 > alpha list as well?  I did not have to do anything with the firmware
 > luckally, because it had already been upgraded before I got the
 > machine.  Unfortunately I won't be of much help to you there.  I have
 > tried the serial console but it did not work for me.  I was connecting a
 > terminal to the 25 pin port on the back of the alpha and using 9600,n,8,1
 > with Xon/Xoff, hardware, and no flow control (none of the above
 > working).  I'll keep you posted...
 > 
 > Ivan.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, George A. Dowding wrote:
 > 
 > > Followup.  I burned cdhdtape onto a regular CD-R instead of a CD-RW,
 > > and it booted up fine.  According to the docs that Adrew pointed me
 > > to, I shouldn't upgrade the firmware without upgrading the SROM.  Does
 > > anyone know if that is still available?
 > > 
 > > It is supposed to be a
 > > 
 > > 333E7/9422
 > > (C)DEV94
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Hopefully serial is functional.  This unit did not come with a video
 > > card.  Luckily there are spare serial terminals
 > > 
 > > Ivan Fetch writes:
 > >  > Hi,
 > >  >    I do not know how much help I'll be, but I wanted to chime in here as
 > >  > well with my recent `findings' on the same machine.  i was trying to
 > >  > install NetBSD 1.4.2 on a Dec 3000/m400 -- I burnt the image from
 > >  > alpha/installation/diskimages onto a CD, and put the binary distribution
 > >  > onto another CD (ISO9660 filesystem).  When booting the first CD, all goes
 > >  > well until we switch to serial console mode.  Looking around on the net we
 > >  > discovered that the keyboard is not supported with NetBSD and this
 > >  > specific machine, so you must use a serial console.  It SEEMS (someone
 > >  > please correct me here because I want this to be inaccurate <grin>) that
 > >  > the only way to connect a serial console to the Alpha and have it work is
 > >  > to use some kind of `line chord' connected between the terminal (in this
 > >  > case another PC running terminal software) and the MMJ connecter (where
 > >  > the keyboard/mouse combo-cable plugs in).  There is a 25 pin serial port
 > >  > on the back of the Alpha as well (this is tty00 under True'64 Unix) - It
 > >  > is not possible to use this port as my serial console???  Further more, it
 > >  > was mentioned (somewhere) that the serial code was buggy enough that
 > >  > running this machine with a serial console would not be so enjoyable.
 > >  > 
 > >  > I look forward to some feedback,
 > >  > Thanks a lot!
 > >  > 
 > >  > Ivan.
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, George A. Dowding wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > This is my first post.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > I am trying to install NetBSD onto a a DEC 3000 M400.  I was unable to
 > >  > > get the Netbsd disk to boot.  Also I was unable to upgrade the
 > >  > > firmware using the "Digital Alpha Systems Firmware update v5.3" CD.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Here is the output of >>show config
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Digital Equipment corporation
 > >  > > 	VPP PAL X5.41-82000101/OSF PAL X1.28000201 - Built on
 > >  > > 30-APR-1993 13:51:49.50
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > TCINFO	    DEVNAM	DEVSTAT
 > >  > > ------	    ------	-------
 > >  > > 	       CPU		ok kn15-ba -v2.4-s465-I077-sV1.0 DECchip P3.0
 > >  > > .
 > >  > > .
 > >  > > .
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Can someone confirm or deny that NetBSD will work on this machine?
 > >  > > More information will be provided upon request.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > -- 
 > >  > > Thanks,
 > >  > > George
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu 
 > >  > > http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > 
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > -- 
 > > Thanks,
 > > George
 > > 
 > > dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu 
 > > http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg
 > > 
 > > 
 > 

-- 
Thanks,
George

dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu 
http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg